In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley discuss the latest developments in Vetter v. Reznik and the implications of worldwide copyright termination.

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Continue Reading The Briefing: BMG v. Vetter: The Supreme Court Can’t Hear It, So the Fifth Circuit Stands

Does using copyrighted content to train AI make it fair use? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, the copyright dispute over Westlaw headnotes used to train a competing legal research tool.

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Continue Reading The Briefing: An Answer, Not the Answer: What ROSS Settles and Unsettles About AI Training

Can bypassing YouTube’s protections to collect AI training data violate the DMCA? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss TED Entertainment v. ByteDance, a lawsuit challenging how videos were allegedly obtained for AI training.


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Continue Reading The Briefing: No Copyright Claim Needed: How Creators Are Using the DMCA to Challenge AI Training

Can a brand stop a creator from making fun of it? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. break down the lawsuit over Baseball Doesn’t Exist’s video mocking Cooperstown Dreams Park and why a federal judge dismissed the copyright and federal trademark claims.

Continue Reading The Briefing: Cooperstown Strikes Out: Parody, Fair Use & Trademark Law

If AI generates something that looks like your work without crediting you, is that a DMCA violation? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down Doe v. GitHub and the Ninth Circuit’s ruling on AI-generated code and copyright management information.

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Continue Reading The Briefing: Copied, Generated and Forfeited! The AI Copyright Ruling in Doe v GitHub