The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s decision, holding that the first factor in the fair use analysis favored photographer Lynn Goldsmith ...

The Copyright Act provides copyright holders with the exclusive right to reproduce copyrighted works and to prepare derivative works. The Act also provides that the ...

Fair use is a concept in US copyright law that was created to balance the exclusive rights of copyright owners and the needs of everyday users of copyrighted material. Fair use of copyrighted works, ...

Everyone — including lawyers and judges — likes simple legal rules. And the copyright act seems to provide one, with its fair use provision listing four factors. So determining fair use should be as ...

Purpose and character. These are now solidly enshrined as the buzzwords of copyright law on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling earlier this week in the case involving the estate of Andy ...

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted ...

Much of the focus on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been on training data ingestion—the moment when AI ...

“Applying the fair use doctrine to generative AI presents novel and complex challenges that stretch the boundaries of traditional copyright analysis.” The advent of generative AI brings to the ...

In an unanimous decision, the Second Circuit ruled that Google Books' scanning and indexing of books is a transformative use that renders a public benefit, leading to a finding of fair use The ...

This workshop equips graduate students and faculty advisors with essential knowledge about using copyrighted materials in dissertations and theses. Learn to identify when copyrighted materials require ...

A 2019 federal district court’s ruling that a French court’s judgment pertaining to a lawsuit involving copyrighted photos of Pablo Picasso’s was recently reversed. The United States Court of Appeals ...