The first federal appeals court to weigh fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS. Why it did so, for now, is under seal.

Cyril Vetter's new Supreme Court counsel says the worldwide-termination question should percolate. The statute, its drafting history, and the termination notices already circulating say otherwise.

The Fifth Circuit rejects the server test for a "transmit requirement": same result for most embedders, plus a new question about permission.

Artist Elizabeth Peyton faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over a photographer's image of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher.

Twelve Corretjer poems Roy Brown set to music are in the public domain. Whether Brown had permission for "Boricua en la Luna" goes to a jury.

Six decades after JFK's assassination, a conspiracy book took aim at the Zapruder copyright. A Dallas judge just decided which claims survive.

The Crave copyright case was open and shut once a judge compared the books. Getting there took four years and $3.4 million in legal fees.

Five new amicus briefs urge the Supreme Court to undo the Fifth Circuit's worldwide-reversion rule, warning it would sow international chaos.

Reaction videos, reggaetón, and a poet's second loss to Taylor Swift. The courts cleared their dockets for summer. Here's what piled up.

Major music companies ask the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit's worldwide copyright termination ruling in BMG v. Vetter.

The Ninth Circuit will rehear the photography-meets-tattoo copyright case en banc, putting "total concept and feel" on the chopping block.

Judge's ruling would hand Denims a fair use win in Ethan Klein's reaction-video copyright lawsuit—using Klein's own precedent against him.

Cox v. Sony is reshaping AI copyright fast. The next fight is volitional conduct—the rule deciding who's liable for what AI models output.

Of the three streamers Ethan Klein sued over Content Nuke, only Denims is still fighting—and her fair use motion puts hatewatching on trial.

A replacement opinion affirms Netflix’s fair use of a one-minute funeral clip—and gives documentary filmmakers a post-Warhol roadmap.

The Supreme Court’s newest copyright decision is already being used to argue that an AI video generator should be treated the same as an ISP.

The Supreme Court’s newest copyright decision is already being used to argue that an AI video generator should be treated the same as an ISP.

The Supreme Court just killed fifty years of contributory liability precedent, rewriting the rules for secondary copyright liability.

A stock photo company went to trial over a single image of raw pork chops, won $200, then asked for $69,000 in fees. It went poorly.

The Supreme Court buried the easy AI copyright case. Still left: what counts as authorship, how you prove it, and what can still get you sued.

A celebrity fitness guru sued a former trainer for copying her exercise routines. The Ninth Circuit said they aren't choreography.

The entertainment industry's AI copyright claims are strong, but Seedance 2.0 highlights the harder challenge: enforcing them across borders.

The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and a misreading of the Copyright Act.

A sweeping new ruling holds that U.S. copyright termination and renewal reach worldwide, upending long-settled limits of territoriality.

Issued days apart on opposite coasts, the cases show copyright's outer limits—what’s protected, what isn’t, and the cost of crossing the line.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg—but two judges called for scrapping the intrinsic test. En banc review may be next.

From novel legal theories to repeated mistakes, 2025 delivered no shortage of questionable copyright rulings. These five cases led the way.

On January 1, 2026, works from 1930—including Nancy Drew, early Betty Boop, and The Maltese Falcon—hit the U.S. public domain. Here’s what it all means.

On January 1, 2026, works from 1930—including Nancy Drew, Betty Boop, and The Maltese Falcon—hit the U.S. public domain. Here’s what it all means.

If you like your turkey with a side of copyright infringement, you've come to the right place.

News publishers just cleared a key hurdle against Cohere in a copyright fight over AI-generated "substitutive summaries" of their reporting.

Thanks to international copyright treaties, Reagan's public domain speech may be protected in Canada—even as Canada gets tariffed for using it here.

7th Circuit: register the right copyright or risk losing even when tracks sound identical. But what if the artist did—and nobody noticed?

OpenAI, facing backlash, will now let rightsholders decide whether their characters appear in Sora 2, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.

My Q&A with Puck's Matt Belloni on why OpenAI's Sora 2 could be Hollywood's biggest copyright test since YouTube

I tested OpenAI's new Sora 2 video app. Within minutes I was generating branded cartoon clips. Hollywood's AI headache just got animated.

A judge dismissed an artist's lawsuit over a 'Lion King' ride concept, finding no substantial similarity after filtering out Disney's own IP.

Fair use wins, exclusivity loses, the 9th Circuit finally publishes, and the future of a psychic network's lawsuit looks hazy. Time to catch up.

It’s the largest copyright settlement in history. But for Anthropic, it’s a toll booth, not a stop sign.

Two wins for AI companies mask a deeper divide: Is artificial intelligence a creative tool or an existential threat?

Two wins for AI companies mask a deeper divide: Is artificial intelligence a creative tool or an existential threat?

Ethan Klein helped establish fair use protections for reaction videos. Now he's suing to prove that not all reactions are created equal.

Hollywood knows the power of visuals. In their lawsuit against Midjourney, the studios aren't just alleging infringement—they're showing it.

Can the White House remove the Register of Copyrights? Shira Perlmutter says no—and warns the stakes go far beyond her job.