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Copyright Owners Are Still Suing Over Embedding

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2025 WL 89191 (S.D.N.Y. 14, 2025) This cases involves two videos, one involving Michael Jordan that someone posted to Twitter (seemingly without permission?), Mediaite LLC, 2025 WL 89226 (S.D.N.Y. The court also says it can’t consider the evidence that Mediaite used embedding on a motion to dismiss.

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The 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2024

Copyright Lately

Fair Use Declawed. This overly restrictive interpretation of the Supreme Courts 2023 Warhol decision sent shockwaves through the filmmaking community, which often relies on fair use to incorporate brief historical footage into their works for entirely new and different purposes. For that reason, Prepared Food Photos v.

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Rounding Up Recent Copyright and AI Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. Anthropic PBC 1) Opinion denying a preliminary injunction , 2025 WL 904333 (N.D. Perlmutter , No. 23-5233 (D.C.

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Viral DRM Awarded Damages for Its 512(f) Claims, But At What Cost?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Ashgar, 2025 WL 822685 (N.D. March 13, 2025) Viral DRM LLC v. Fadila, 2025 WL 822688 (N.D. March 13, 2025) Viral DRM LLC v. Fuentes, 2025 WL 822690 (N.D. March 13, 2025) Viral DRM LLC v. Lepetyuk, 2025 WL 822981 (N.D. March 13, 2025) Viral DRM LLC v. Lietucheva, 2025 WL 822689 (N.D.

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

SpicyIP

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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comparative advertising isn't confusing

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Solar Now Puerto Rico, LLC, 2025 WL 725078, NO. 6, 2025) A frivolous lawsuit against comparative advertising; the court gets the right result at least. Windmar and Solar now compete in the Puerto Rico market for the sale and installation of solar energy equipment. Windmar PV Energy, Inc. 24-1570 (RAM) (D.P.R.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 10 – February 16)

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Additionally, it is right-holder centric favouring authors and encouraging them to control the use of their works in new markets. Call for Applications: SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025 (Apply by February 23) Attention IP and tech enthusiasts! The deadline is February 23. Read on for more details!