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The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the certification of a class of plaintiffs consisting of freelance authors (and the trade groups representing the authors) and subsequent approval of a settlement of these plaintiffs’ copyright infringement claims arising out of the unauthorized electronic reproduction of their works.

When last we looked in on the dispute between Oracle and SAP after SAP’s acquisition of TomorrowNow revealed some unfortunate baggage in the form of extensive copyright infringement, Oracle was flush with a $1.3 billion federal jury award, with SAP vowing to reduce the verdict by any means necessary.

As part of the omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, the US Congress amended the Copyright Act on two key topics.

Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office announced the release of a public draft of the third edition of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices.

The U.S. Copyright Office recently addressed the copyrightability of outputs created using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in Part 2 of its Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Report.

Filing a copyright lawsuit just got a little bit easier. In June 2022, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) began accepting cases. The CCB, which will function as the U.S.

If your business currently uses artificial intelligence (AI), is considering using AI in the future or is concerned about how AI may impact your business, the U.S. Copyright Office wants to hear from you.

The Court cautioned that a finding of objective reasonableness is not controlling and does not create a presumption against granting fees.

Despite Hurricane Sandy, the US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday, October 29, 2012 on whether the "first-sale doctrine" of US copyright law applies to goods made outside the US.

The World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement recently announced progress made on its Building Respect for Intellectual Property database, also known as the BRIP Database.

On September 18, 2018, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act, an important piece of legislation aimed at updating music copyright laws for the digital era.

Technology today would have seemed like science fiction to people fifty years ago.

Linkedin has filed a lawsuit to prevent unauthorized use of "bots" that register fake profiles on the social network and steal data about actual users.

Addressing the issue of whether the propriety of the defendant’s conduct is relevant when analyzing the first prong of the fair use test, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently affirmed a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction even though the defendants had obtained the copyrighted materials in bad faith.

Last week, one of South Korea's largest firms announced plans to develop a blockchain-based music copyright management system.

On 26 March 2019, the European Parliament approved the EU Copyright Directive.

As this quick read from Inc42 makes clear, startup valuations are always more art than science, especially in the earliest stages.