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Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI

JD Supra Law

MARCH 27, 2025

Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement during the model training process in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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AI Training Copyright Infringement and Fair Use: Thomson Reuters v Ross

Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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Roblox Faces Potentially Unlimited Copyright Liability—Robinson v. Binello

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

The plaintiff Robinson made a recording of it ( here is one such version ) that is copyrighted. Direct Copyright Infringement. Thus, the court says the question is whether the moderation team’s approval of Binello’s upload was a but-for cause of the alleged infringement of Robinson’s copyright.

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“Volitional Conduct” Doctrine Helps DistroKid Defeat Copyright Infringement Claim–White v. DistroKid

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

White created “beats” and got copyright registrations for them. White now claims that DistroKid infringed his copyrights to the beats, both directly and indirectly (the court dismissed the indirect claims last year). First, oral copyright licenses are a recipe for trouble. Ugh, so much going wrong here.

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Europol Predicts Drop in Online Piracy, Contrary to New Data

TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2025

Europol is no stranger to piracy and online copyright infringement. Piracy Decline (2022 report) This report is still not the original source, as another citation identifies an EUIPO copyright infringement report from 2021 as the basis for the conclusion that piracy is declining. Piracy is Actually Rising?

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Disney Prevails in ‘Moana’ Copyright Case: Lessons for Creators

JD Supra Law

MARCH 19, 2025

On March 10, 2025, a federal jury delivered a verdict in favor of Disney in a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit. screenwriter and animator Buck Woodall claimed that Disney's 2016 blockbuster animated film "Moana" infringed on his 2011 screenplay "Bucky the Wave Warrior" (Bucky). The Walt Disney Co.,

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Delaware Court Delivers First Copyright Verdict on AI Training

JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware became the first to rule on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an AI system qualifies as copyright infringement. the court granted summary judgment on the plaintiffs infringement claim, and denied the defendants fair-use defense.

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Rounding Up Recent Copyright and AI Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

It’s been a busy two weeks for copyright and AI cases. March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. The district court ruled it wasn’t copyrightable.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 27 – February 2)

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal and Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on taking stock of ANI vs OpenAI copyright litigation (Part I and II), and Machine Unlearning and the ANI vs OpenAI case. Anything we are missing out on?

Copyright

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Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost?

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

Earlier this week, various rightsholder groups submitted their recommendations for the 2025 Special 301 Report. copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies. Not just for copyright holders, but also for American tech giants.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)

SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Enforcing Criminal Remedies Against IP Infringement in India: A Long Road to Justice? In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted an accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! 48,35,610/- and instructed the defendant to destroy all infringing products. Nirmala Agarwal Prop of Karmyogi vs B.C

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SDNY: YouTube Sublicenses Embedding, But Copyright Concerns Linger

Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

Judge Alvin Hellerstein dismissed copyright infringement claims over a YouTube-hosted video embedded in the defendant’s article, finding that YouTube’s Terms of Service explicitly and unambiguously grant a sublicense that clearly extends to embedding. In Richardson v. Townsquare Media, Inc. Townsquare Media, Inc.

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Authors Put a Spotlight on Meta’s BitTorrent Leeching Activity

TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part.

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The New Paradox of Executive Behavior Around Copyright and Content Sharing

Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the ebook, 2025 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends, which draws on data from the 2025 Information Seeking and Usage Study to offer insights into how employees think about, use, and share copyrighted content today, including with AI tools. Since 2007, CCC has partnered with Outsell, Inc.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2025

Katfriend Paul England (Taylor Wessing) discussed the current state of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) in the UK, questioning whether the system needs reform, by reviewing the recent English Court of Appeal decision in Merck Serono SA v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Mark s [2025] EWCA Civ 45 (28 January 2025).

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Nayanthara and Dhanush Copyright Controversy – De Minimis Rule to the Rescue?

SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2025

Poster of the film “ Naanum Rowdy Dhaan “ Image from here Nayanthara and Dhanush Copyright Controversy – De Minimis Rule to the Rescue? The first question is which work’s copyright has been infringed and who is the owner of that work. Later, we will look at the controversy from the lens of Prof.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 21-October 27)

SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Volume IX, Issue I [Submit by January 10, 2025] National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Volume IX, Issue I). The last date for submissions is January 10, 2025.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 10 – March 16)

SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

A quick glance at last week finding the real Burger King saga continues now at the Supreme Court, EDs involvement in the Shankar-Tamilnandan copyright case, right to health and compulsory licensing for rare disease medicine Risdiplam. The inclusion of copyright infringement in an anti-money laundering statute sounds a little strange, right?

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Two takeaways from the U.S. Copyright Office's Jan. 2025 report on AI-created works

JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

Copyright Office released Part 2 of its report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence on January 29, 2025. Part 2 focuses on the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. The highly anticipated Part 3, which is forthcoming, will address copyright infringement and fair use issues involving generative AI.).

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February 2025 Roundup of Copyright News

Copyright Alliance

MARCH 4, 2025

In February, several very significant developments unfolded in the courts with news publishers filing an AI copyright infringement suit and a court rejecting an AI companys argument that their copying […] The post February 2025 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 24 – March 30)

SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Further, he questions whether even a Text Data Mining Exception is required in the Indian Copyright Act. CRI Guidelines 2025 is out for Public Consultations! The Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025, has been published for public consultation. Read the post for more details.

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The Evolving Jurisprudence of Copyright in AI-Generated Works

IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

However, this gives a grand legal question: who has the right to copyright AI-created works? This has to do with the application of copyright to works made through AI. Traditional Copyright Framework and Its Limitations Copyright law is fundamentally based on three principles: Authorship : The creator of a work owns the copyright.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We are extending the deadline to vote for the IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024 until 10 February 2025. Copyright Alessandro Cerri explored a recent decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court of the High Court of England & Wales on copyright infringement in a TV format. Extension of Deadline!

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 10 – February 16)

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

[Thanks to Aditi, Khushi and Sudhanshu for the case summaries] Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on the ANI vs OpenAI copyright case, CGPDTMs office being moved to Delhi, and exemption under Section 107A of the Patents Act. Highlights of the Week ANI vs OpenAI: Indias Copyright Act is outdated.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

ANI vs OpenAI: Why Delhi High Court Has Jurisdiction While OpenAI has argued that the DHC does not have jurisdiction to entertain the suit filed by ANI, a close look at the Copyright Act and CPC says otherwise. The last day to send your applications is April 1, 2025. For more details see their call for applications in this post.

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Challenging the Server Test for Image Embedding

Patently-O

APRIL 2, 2025

by Dennis Crouch McGucken v. Valnet, Inc.,

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From Headnotes to Head-scratchers: The Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

carries significant implications for Generative AI and pending Copyright cases worldwide. By identifying the most consequential words and principles, such a headnote reflects a significant creative exercise meriting copyright protection, transcending mere textual reproduction to recognize the intellectual labor of legal synthesis.

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AI Reporter - February 2025

JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

January saw activity in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors led by comedian Sarah Silverman against OpenAI. A magistrate judge ordered the AI pioneer to produce its datasets, which are used for training, to determine whether they contained copyrighted material. By: Benesch

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 24 – March 2)

SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

Other Posts Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More As of 26th February, 2025, Kindle users will no longer be able to use the feature Download or Transfer via USB, for Kindle Purchased books, as Amazon is discontinuing the feature. on 25 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here. Case Summaries Lifestyle Equities Cv & Anr.

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Meta’s AI Arriving in Europe: Privacy Disputes Concealing Copyright Concerns

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

However, data appear to be just one side of the medal and to conceal much deeper copyright concerns. The copyright concerns Meanwhile, beyond the privacy issues, authors and performers worldwide – the driving force behind such services – are protesting to the new AI policy of Meta. To escape this interregnum, a new balance is needed.

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DISH Sues ‘Pirate’ IPTV Services Lemo and Kemo in U.S. Court

TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2025

Lemo TV & Kemo IPTV The American pay-TV provider accuses the operators of popular streaming services ‘Lemo TV’ and ‘Kemo IPTV’ of direct copyright infringement. In addition, the complaint seeks an injunction to transfer the infringing domain names.

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Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense in Thompson Reuters' AI Copyright Suit Against Ross Intelligence

JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

On February 11, 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas issued an opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. 1:20-cv-613, a dispute regarding copyright infringement allegations stemming from the use of copyrighted data from the Westlaw legal database used in the training of an AI search tool. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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DAZN Pirate IPTV Action Coincided With Massive Public DNS Blockade

TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2025

The notice references a regulatory order to block public DNS resolvers, stemming from a court order concerning claims of copyright infringement against pirate streaming sites. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 30 – January 5)

SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Indias Top IP Developments in 2024, a potential trade secret litigation at the Delhi HC and Screenwriters Rights Association of Indias registration as Copyright Society. Copyright Office to Begin Issuing Part 2 and 3 of its AI Guidance in January 2025

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 20 – January 26)

SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

Case Summaries Guddu Gupta Trading as Ms Leela vs Suraj Gupta Trading As Ms Devi Leela … on 18 January, 2025 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff, trading as Leela Cosmetics, alleged that his brother operating under Devi Leela Cosmetics, infringed upon his trademarks ROOP LADY and ROOP LEELA, as well as the design of his sindoor stick bottles.

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Call for Submissions: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. 15 [Submissions by March 31, 2025]

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The last date for submission of entries is March 31, 2025. The Journal is presently soliciting submissions for its 15 th Volume, to be released tentatively in August 2025. The last date for submission of papers is 31 st March 2025. Guidelines for the submissions are provided below.

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Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More

SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

1925 As of 26th February, 2025 , Kindle users will no longer be able to use the feature Download or Transfer via USB, for Kindle Purchased books, as Amazon is discontinuing the feature. Thus the higher evidentiary standard of intention to infringe upon copyright must also be proved (p 588). After the 1994 amendment, S.

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Rock on – Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against High Court’s refusal to strike out claims in Jimi Hendrix Experience litigation

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Unless the Court of Appeals decision is appealed to the Supreme Court, the copyright and performers rights claims made by the estates of former JHE band members against Sony Music Entertainment will proceed to a full trial. 23 of the Limitation Act 1980.

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Blow up: Claim against BBC ends in civil restraint order

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I wondered if the claimant was using the words trade mark to mean copyright in the name; news publishers regularly mix up the two.) This is despite the Claimant having in the past denied that her claim was in copyright. The court proceeded on the basis that the treatment was alleged to be a literary or dramatic work.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 6 – January 12)

SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

In this post, Yogesh Byadwal argues that these terms of use also offer an insight into the practice of expanding copyright using Contract Law. on 8 January, 2025 (Delhi HC) The rectification petition was filed seeking removal of trade mark registered in the name of respondent no. DHC Directs CIC to Disclose a Ph.D

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Content Sharing in the AI Era: Why Compliance Gaps Persist

Velocity of Content

JANUARY 28, 2025

Methodology In a study on behalf of Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Outsell surveyed 584 professionals evenly split across 14 industries. Figure 1: Copyright Awareness vs. Potential Unlicensed Sharing by Organization Level Source: Outsell Inc. Outsells fact-based analysis and all aspects of our opinion were independently derived.

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From Sculptors to Headnotes: Chiseling Out Copyright Protection for Westlaw Content

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

by Dennis Crouch In a surprising decision today, Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled that ROSS Intelligence's use of Westlaw content to train its legal AI system constituted copyright infringement. 11, 2025). Most of these have favored the makers and users of AI over the owners of the IP (typically copyright holders). Ross Intel.

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game spat expands beyond false advertising to TM and (c)

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

2025 WL 438387, 24cv1646(DLC) (S.D.N.Y. 7, 2025) Previous discussion. Papaya counterclaimed for the same causes of action and added trademark and copyright infringement as well as defamation and civil conspiracy claims. Skillz also counterclaimed that Skillz infringed copyrighted elements of Papayas game BINGO CASH.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. As with most current cases related to AI’s copyright infringement, this one will most likely result in the issuance of a landmark ruling. Microsoft Corp.,

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Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI

AI Training Copyright Infringement and Fair Use: Thomson Reuters v Ross

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Roblox Faces Potentially Unlimited Copyright Liability—Robinson v. Binello

“Volitional Conduct” Doctrine Helps DistroKid Defeat Copyright Infringement Claim–White v. DistroKid

Europol Predicts Drop in Online Piracy, Contrary to New Data

Disney Prevails in ‘Moana’ Copyright Case: Lessons for Creators

Delaware Court Delivers First Copyright Verdict on AI Training

Rounding Up Recent Copyright and AI Rulings

SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 27 – February 2)

Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost?

SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)

SDNY: YouTube Sublicenses Embedding, But Copyright Concerns Linger

Authors Put a Spotlight on Meta’s BitTorrent Leeching Activity

The New Paradox of Executive Behavior Around Copyright and Content Sharing

Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

Nayanthara and Dhanush Copyright Controversy – De Minimis Rule to the Rescue?

SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 21-October 27)

SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 10 – March 16)

Two takeaways from the U.S. Copyright Office's Jan. 2025 report on AI-created works

February 2025 Roundup of Copyright News

SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 24 – March 30)

The Evolving Jurisprudence of Copyright in AI-Generated Works

Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 10 – February 16)

SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

Challenging the Server Test for Image Embedding

From Headnotes to Head-scratchers: The Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

AI Reporter - February 2025

SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 24 – March 2)

Meta’s AI Arriving in Europe: Privacy Disputes Concealing Copyright Concerns

DISH Sues ‘Pirate’ IPTV Services Lemo and Kemo in U.S. Court

Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense in Thompson Reuters' AI Copyright Suit Against Ross Intelligence

DAZN Pirate IPTV Action Coincided With Massive Public DNS Blockade

SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 30 – January 5)

SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 20 – January 26)

Call for Submissions: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. 15 [Submissions by March 31, 2025]

Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More

Rock on – Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against High Court’s refusal to strike out claims in Jimi Hendrix Experience litigation

Blow up: Claim against BBC ends in civil restraint order

SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 6 – January 12)

Content Sharing in the AI Era: Why Compliance Gaps Persist

From Sculptors to Headnotes: Chiseling Out Copyright Protection for Westlaw Content

game spat expands beyond false advertising to TM and (c)

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