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...
Recently, Sony Music Entertainment sued USC for posting promotional videos to social media accounts linked to the university that use unlicensed musical tracks. According to the suit, USC used 170 unlicensed music recordings on 283 social media videos across 30 social...
We have written several articles touching on how it is not possible to obtain copyright protection for an idea. What is protectable is the specific tangible execution of that idea. A variation on this concept has come into play regarding the recently added ability of...
Ever since “Levitating” became a monster hit in 2020, the Dua Lipa song has been a magnet for legal action. In 2022, both Artikal Sound System – a Florida reggae group – and L. Russel Brown and Sandy Linzer – a pair of songwriters – filed lawsuits arguing that Lipa’s...
Tangle, Inc. is the owner of copyright registrations for seven different sculptures that are both kinetic and manipulable. Each sculpture is made out of 17-to-18 tubular segments that are curved 90 degrees and completely identical. Once connected, each segment can be...
In 2018, Stephen Thaler attempted to get copyright protection for a piece of visual art called “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” The work was created by DABUS, an AI system made by Thaler. Interestingly, Thaler did not apply for a copyright for himself. Rather, he...