A few months back, a group of authors filed a class action lawsuit against Salesforce in federal court in the Northern District of California, alleging that the company used pirated copies of copyrighted books to train its large language models and power commercial AI...
This one was so big that you may have already heard about it even if you do not have your ear to the ground for IP news. In December 2025, The Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google alleging unauthorized use of Disney’s copyrighted works in...
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape commerce, media, and technology, policymakers face a familiar but difficult question: how to encourage innovation without eroding the legal frameworks that made that innovation possible in the first place. A recent...
When individuals hear a celebrity is being sued over song lyrics, it can sound like tabloid fodder – something not to be taken very seriously. And it is true that Kimberly Marasco’s 2024 complaint alleging that Swift and her collaborators used elements of her poetry...
Recently, photographer Dennis Lee filed suit against the Detroit Lions claiming the NFL team used Lee’s high school sports images of quarterback Jared Goff without proper licensing. The photographs in dispute date from 2011 and 2012 and depict Goff playing baseball...
Back in July, we told you about the lawsuit Disney and Universal filed against Midjourney, alleging unlawful use of copyrighted images owned by those entertainment companies. At the time, we asked whether it might be a turning point for AI as the first big instance of...
As an IP attorney, I often get asked what kinds of things really land someone in copyright trouble these days. Obviously, the answer to that depends, but the recently filed lawsuit by CoStar (owner of Homes.com) against Zillow is a vivid and timely example worth...
On the surface, music copyright cases may seem straightforward: if two songs sound alike, there is likely infringement, right? Longtime readers know this is not true, though. In fact, IP law imposes two major hurdles: showing the accused had a reasonable opportunity...