February 19, 2025
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AI-Generated Songs Can’t Be Copyrighted, But Tools Fair Game: Report

A new federal report on artificial intelligence says that merely prompting a computer to write a song isn’t enough to secure a copyright on the resulting track — but that using AI as a “brainstorming tool” or to assist in a recording studio would be fair game. In a long-awaited report issued Wednesday (Jan. 29),

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See Masterpieces of 20th-Century Art That Just Entered the Public Domain (Because, Hey, Now We Can Reproduce Them!)

Works by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and numerous other artists are entering the public domain this year as a major trove of copyrights expired in the US on January 1. It’s the first time in 21 years that there’s been a mass expiration of this kind, which pertains to thousands of works

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Isaac Hayes Estate Files Copyright Suit, Say This Cat Donald Trump Is A Bad Mother- Above the Law

(Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images) Donald Trump and his campaign are due in court on September 3, after a federal judge set an emergency hearing to address allegations that Trump has persistently infringed intellectual property rights held by the estate of the late Isaac Hayes. Could you even imagine Donald Trump taking someone else’s hard

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Andreessen Horowitz leads $80 million bet on startup seeking to tame AI with copyright

The arrival of the internet unleashed a wave of creativity as users found new ways to make and mix culture, but it also delivered an economic blow to authors, musicians, and news outlets. Much of the revenue that had once flowed to content producers got gobbled by tech platforms like Facebook and Google. Now, at

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Court Lets Copyright Claim Against Louis Vuitton Proceed

An indie fashion designer who is accusing Louis Vuitton of ripping off her work saw one of her copyright infringement claims move forward recently. In a decision earlier this summer, a Pennsylvania federal court gave the green-light to Plaintiff Paula Hian’s claim that Louis Vuitton and fellow LVMH-owned brand Off-White Operating SRL (collectively, “Louis Vuitton”)

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Photographer Files $300,000 Copyright Infringement Suit Against ‘Zillow Gone Wild’

A real estate photographer has sued the creator of a wildly popular media site that posts about distinctive properties, saying the creator used two of her photographs without her permission. Veteran photographer Jennnifer Bouma, of Washington State, has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Zillow Gone Wild. She took the photos in 2021 and copyrighted

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US Copyright Office calls for ‘prompt federal action’ to combat AI deepfakes

The United States Copyright Office says that artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfakes pose a serious threat to Americans and called on Congress to urgently formulate a new law for the sector. The Office was charged by Congress with conducting research and collecting public views on the best way to oversee the nascent AI sector, especially since

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