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Heirs to Author of Article That Inspired Top Gun Crash and Burn in California District Court

IP Watchdog

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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Cybersecurity Litigation Strategies: Jurisdiction

JD Supra Law

This article is the second in our series on patent litigation strategies for cybersecurity companies. It expands on Tactic #1, Challenge the courts jurisdiction, from our earlier article, Five Tactics for Cybersecurity Companies to Defeat Patent Infringement Claims.. By: Fish & Richardson

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Authors of Article That Inspired Top Gun Crash and Burn in California District Court

IP Watchdog

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son, respectively, of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works. What is AI image generation software?

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The Beginning of AI-Copyright Litigation in India?: ANI vs OpenAI in DHC Tomorrow

SpicyIP

Image from here AI litigation seems to have reached India! In December last year, New York Times had sued both OpenAI and Microsoft for infringing copyright on its news articles used to train chatbots. On November 7, a similar lawsuit was dismissed against OpenAI filed by news outlets on the misuse of articles to train its LLMs.

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The Bizarre Copyright Battle Over Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Plagiarism Today

However, it’s an important case to keep in mind, especially litigation over music seems to be on the rise. In 2022, we seem to be in a time when litigation over music is ever-present. That especially true given the thought of me repeatedly typing (or more realistically pasting) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious into this article.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently-O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]