A federal court approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright class settlement, finding its per-work relief, notice, claims process, and limited release fair and adequate.
The Federal Circuit vacated a $12.7 million copyright damages award against the government for unauthorized copying of healthcare interoperability software, holding that courts misapplied the ‘book of wisdom’ by considering unforeseeable events and that punitive willful-infringement dama
Judge Corley dismissed Swedish music company Epidemic Sound’s copyright infringement suit against Meta, finding it failed to plausibly allege that Meta’s content was substantially similar to Epidemic Sound’s protected works.
Following a $102 million jury verdict in April, Manhattan federal Judge Jennifer Rochon issued a permanent injunction barring art publisher Michael McKenzie from reproducing, marketing, or selling works by the late artist Robert Indiana, including his iconic LOVE imagery.
A California federal court dismissed contributory copyright claims against eBay, holding that responding to takedown notices is sufficient and that platforms need not implement permanent staydown systems to avoid secondary liability.
The CJEU held that state-of-the-art geo-blocking prevents a “communication to the public” in a protected member state, and that the possibility of VPN circumvention does not defeat that conclusion — clearing a path for open-access digital editions of historically significant works across
A Southern District of New York judge dismissed a freelance artist’s copyright claims that Hachette used AI to replicate his commissioned book covers for Sandra Brown novels, finding he failed to establish substantial similarity between his artwork and Hachette’s redesigned covers.
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice a Florida poet’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift, finding the plaintiff’s poems lack protectable expression and the works are not substantially similar.
Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed with prejudice a poet’s $25 million copyright suit against Taylor Swift, holding that the alleged overlaps — common themes, ubiquitous metaphors, and isolated phrases — amount at most to unprotectable ideas rather than original expression.
A federal judge denied summary judgment on all sides in the sprawling copyright lawsuit alleging that the dembow rhythm underlying over 1,800 reggaeton songs was stolen from Jamaican producers Steely and Clevie’s 1989 ‘Fish Market’ recording.
A California federal court dismissed all copyright claims against YouTube — without invoking the DMCA safe harbor — while allowing a pro se author’s direct infringement claims against the YouTube channel operators who narrated his book chapter-by-chapter to proceed.
Authors and publishers reached a $1.5 billion class-action settlement with Anthropic over its use of pirated book databases to train Claude, the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. The deal — covering some 482,000 titles at roughly $3,100 per work — is awaiting final court approval.