September 19, 2024
A trio of D.C. Circuit judges appeared skeptical Thursday of arguments from an artificial intelligence inventor trying to copyright a painting by his AI system, questioning whether he is backing off his stance that his program created the art completely autonomously — the very reason the U.S. Copyright Office rejected his application.
August 30, 2024
Appeals courts have awakened from summertime slumber and crammed their early autumn calendars with arguments of national significance, which Law360 previews in this edition of Wheeling & Appealing. We're also recapping August's top appellate decisions, exploring new polling about U.S. Supreme Court opinions and testing your knowledge of Fifth Circuit history.
July 26, 2024
The first copyright trial arising from an artificial intelligence platform could provide intellectual property attorneys with insight into dozens of pending suits against AI companies, while the Tenth Circuit is reconsidering whether Netflix made fair use of a funeral clip in its "Tiger King" docuseries.
April 11, 2024
An artificial intelligence inventor has bashed the U.S. Copyright Office's arguments that art created by his AI system is not copyrightable because the machine is not human, telling the D.C. Circuit that the government cannot overcome the fact that the work exists, it's original and it qualifies for registration, regardless of its origin.
March 07, 2024
The U.S. Copyright Office has urged the D.C. Circuit to reject an artificial intelligence inventor's argument that work created by machines are eligible for copyright protection, saying the government has a long history of extending that benefit only to human authors.
January 23, 2024
An artificial intelligence inventor challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's refusal to register an AI-generated artwork has asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse a lower court's ruling upholding the government agency's decision, arguing the law "explicitly allows for non-human authors."
January 01, 2024
Love it or hate it, the growing adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools has given society no choice but to grapple with their novel challenges, and in 2024, trailblazing litigation over AI's impact on intellectual property, civil liberties and privacy will be hashed out in courtrooms across the country.