1. Dr. Suess vs. ComicMix, LLC (Oh, the places you will boldly go). Dr. Suess/Star Trek mashup. Problems: Copied highly creative style, did not make parody (no critique commentary), trading off Dr.

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Andy Warhol wasn’t allowed to use a photographer’s portrait of Prince for a series of pop-art images, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision limiting the reach of the fair use defense to ...

Would the Photographer of Marilyn have the Same Claim? Would Marilyn's Estate have the same claim? The Supreme Court recently issued its decision on the application of the fair use defense to Andy ...

In the second landmark decision this week relating to whether use of copyrighted content for training generative AI qualifies as a fair use, Judge Chhabria, in the federal court for the Northern ...

“If Warhol does not get credit for transformative copying, who will? [The decision] will stifle creativity of every sort. It will impede new art and music and literature. It will thwart the expression ...

The Supreme Court ruled this week on Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, and the decision could have a transformative effect on copyright law. The ruling was so heated, it ...

“Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does–even if it comes late, as it did here.” Judge Stephanos Bibas Yesterday, Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in ...

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted ...

"Rather than walking through the four-factor fair use analysis for each case, this column will discuss two significant caveats that these decisions have added to the ongoing debate in the courts about ...

Artificial intelligence companies don’t need permission from authors to train their large language models (LLMs) on legally acquired books, US District Judge William Alsup ruled Monday. The ...

The justices answered whether the artist's use of a photograph of Prince to create a new work constitutes copyright infringement. By Winston Cho Andy Warhol wasn’t allowed to use a photographer’s ...