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...
Back in March of this year, we wrote about a decision against Ross Intelligence using existing material to train its AI model. In that case, the judge ruled that it was not fair use for Ross to use material from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw without permission to create...
After a Golden Globe pre-party in January of this year, Jennifer Lopez posted at least nine photos to her social accounts featuring her in designer attire. She labeled the post “Weekend Glamour.” The problem? They were not Lopez’s photos to share. Rather, the...
On June 11, The Walt Disney Company and Universal Pictures filed a federal lawsuit against AI image-generation platform Midjourney in the U.S. District Court Central District of California. Why? The studios allege that Midjourney unlawfully used copyrighted images of...
In late April, Shaun Gray filed a lawsuit against Paramount seeking a share of profits for work he alleges he did on the studio’s 2022 megahit Top Gun: Maverick. The cousin of one of the film’s credited screenwriters, Eric Singer, Mr. Gray claims that Singer and...