LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. In its answer and counterclaim filed Nov.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 5, 2024

In the Sid Avery lawsuit, Pixels ultimately won at trial that it was not sufficiently vertically integrated for copyright purposes, so we’ll see if the judge’s tone changes on summary judgment. .” March 1, 2024) Related posts * Atari’s Lawsuit Against a Print-on-Demand Service Fizzles Out–Atari v. Implications.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

16] Companies accomplish this by first suing generic-manufacturing companies for patent infringement, and then settling the lawsuit by paying them to stay out of the market in what is known as a reverse-payment settlement. [17] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. Getty, an image licensing service, has brought a lawsuit against the creators of art-generating AI “Stable Diffusion” in a US federal court, alleging that the tool unlawfully copied and processed millions of images, violating its copyright in the images.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Neither Time nor BuzzFeed was named as a defendant. To be clear, the plain language of the Copyright Act requires that the defendant must display a “copy” of the image; but it does not say that the “copy” must necessarily be in the defendant’s possession.] 2021), for example, the defendant purchased a website from another party.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s that every new case related to the law of copyright preemption of contracts leaves lawyers with a potential new set of arguments to defend or argue against with the law of copyright preemption. In ML Genius, the defendant that sought to maintain access to online data prevailed. Three courts of appeals have answered “no.”

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

First, NYT alleged that the defendants engaged in copying substantial NYT content when building their Large Language Models. ” Defendants are accused of such “copying” without permission or payment. It remains unclear whether this is a timely response to the lawsuit. 102 subject matter.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

The Road Not Taken At this point, no lawsuit had been filed; and the dispute probably could have been, and certainly should have been, easily resolved. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd., She contacted AWF and advised it that the illustration infringed her copyright.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 21, 2023

In its June 8, 2023 opinion written by Justice Kagan, a unanimous Court declined to decide whether it is ever appropriate to apply the Rogers test—or any threshold First Amendment filter—in a trademark infringement lawsuit before allowing the case to “proceed to the Lanham Act’s likelihood-of-confusion inquiry.” Redbubble, Inc. ,

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This post covers two more rulings this week involving anti-TikTok efforts: Montana’s TikTok ban and Indiana’s consumer protection lawsuit against TikTok. The court dismisses the lawsuit both on procedural and substantive grounds. Those efforts all failed in court (see links at the bottom of this post).

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