An Eastern District of Texas court entered default judgment, awarded $42,000, enjoined further BitTorrent infringement, and ordered deletion of unauthorized copies.
A wrestling promoter’s copyright suit was dismissed because he did not plausibly allege WWE’s access to his sequence or substantial similarity in protected expression.
A Colorado federal court awarded $7,500 in statutory damages plus fees and costs for willful use of a copyrighted photograph on Pinterest.
Australia’s Federal Court extended copyright site-blocking orders for five years and refreshed the covered piracy-site addresses.
The Second Circuit held that a diamond price list alleged to reflect expert judgment could not be denied copyright protection under the merger doctrine at the pleading stage without evidence about how its prices were created.
A Florida federal court held that Schedule A defendants prevailed after the copyright plaintiff dismissed with prejudice and awarded $39,802.50 in fees.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the DMCA exemption permitting access to medical-device software for diagnosis, maintenance, and repair as a reasoned application of copyright fair use.
On reconsideration, a California federal court granted defendants partial summary judgment because the plaintiffs had not identified one copyrighted work containing the complete selection and arrangement they sought to enforce.
The Fifth Circuit rejected the Ninth Circuit’s server test but held that framed links did not infringe because Particle did not transmit the publisher’s content, while allowing a fact-specific DMCA claim over URLs to continue.
The Fifth Circuit revived architectural copyright claims after distinguishing building-design rights from plan copyrights, but held that newly created images lacking CMI did not violate DMCA section 1202(b).
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the denial of attorney’s fees to YouTube because Athos’s losing copyright claims were nonfrivolous and reasonably motivated.
A Massachusetts federal court allowed artists’ AI derivative-work and DMCA circumvention claims against Suno to proceed while dismissing a Tennessee statutory claim.
A federal court dismissed part of an author’s AI copyright claim because generalized allegations about shadow libraries did not plausibly connect her books to the Nemotron training data.
The D.C. Circuit dismissed Music Choice’s petition, holding that the Copyright Royalty Board’s post hoc regulatory interpretation was neither a reviewable determination nor binding on the parties.
A Massachusetts federal court held that an imperfect but genuine fair-use review defeated a Section 512(f) claim over DMCA notices targeting clips of local-government meetings.
The Seventh Circuit rejected software copyright and trade-secret claims where no evidence showed copied source code and the alleged secrets were public, visible, or too generic.
The Third Circuit upheld a fudge-recipe trade-secret verdict and attorney-fee awards on unsuccessful trademark and copyright claims.
The Delhi High Court denied ANI’s interim injunction, finding that OpenAI’s storage of news works for LLM training was prima facie fair dealing under Indian copyright law.
A federal court let a DMCA subpoena proceed against an anonymous archive operator but deferred disclosure while considering a protective order.
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.
A California federal court dismissed Google’s DMCA claims because anti-scraping technology must control access to copyrighted material with the copyright owner’s authority.
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.