Can a car, a superhero, or even a cartoon sidekick be protected by copyright? In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Matt Sugarman break down how fictional characters earn legal protection — and when they don’t.Continue Reading The Briefing: Protecting Fictional Characters – Copyright and Trademark Strategies
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The Briefing: Studios Beware – The Danger of the Beauty and the Beast Copyright Decision
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Posted in Copyright Law, The Briefing
Disney faced a copyright lawsuit over the use of MOVA facial-capture software in Beauty and the Beast. A jury found Disney vicariously liable, the district court threw out the verdict, but the Ninth Circuit has now reinstated it. In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss:Continue Reading The Briefing: Studios Beware – The Danger of the Beauty and the Beast Copyright Decision
The Briefing: Anthropic Settles AI Training Case for $1.5 Billion +
By Scott Hervey & Matthew N. Sugarman on
The Anthropic settlement shows just how costly copyright missteps can be in AI development. Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5B settlement after a court found that keeping a permanent library of pirated books was not fair use—even though training its AI model on those same works was.Continue Reading The Briefing: Anthropic Settles AI Training Case for $1.5 Billion +
The Briefing: Who Owns What – Understanding Copyright in Collaborative Projects
By Scott Hervey & Richard Buckley on
Who owns the rights when you co-create something? It’s not always as simple as you think. On this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley dig into:Continue Reading The Briefing: Who Owns What – Understanding Copyright in Collaborative Projects
The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next
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In a major win for Meta, a federal court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by prominent authors who claimed their books were illegally used to train the company’s Llama models. But the ruling doesn’t give AI companies a free pass—it reveals the roadmap for how a better-prepared copyright plaintiff could win next time.Continue Reading The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next