The first 24 hours of punditry on Judge Stephanos Bibas’s summary judgment of no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., Case 1:20-cv-00613-SB (D. Del.), has largely oscillated between predictions that the...more
2/13/2025
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Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Defense Strategies ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Machine Learning ,
Software ,
Thomson Reuters
Right now, we are all taking stock of the many important issues and challenges we saw crop up for clients last year, trying to predict what they will face in the coming year, and strategizing about how we can help....more
1/27/2025
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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Confidential Information ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contract Terms ,
Copyright ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Digital Media ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Marketing ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Mitigation
Ruling in favor of a Miami music producer, Sherman Nealy, over a song by rapper Flo Rida, the Supreme Court held on May 9 that there is no time limit for recovering monetary damages in copyright cases that are otherwise...more
6/4/2024
/ Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Damages ,
Discovery Rule ,
Look-Back Measurement Period ,
Music Industry ,
SCOTUS ,
Statute of Limitations ,
The Copyright Act ,
Warner Chappell Music v Nealy
The pitfalls of modern technology have become clearer with the advent of generative AI, requiring companies to adopt AI usage policies. This year, our attorneys have seen noteworthy growth in requests for counsel involving...more
There will be no special rules for your industry. What gets decided in the next six months to a year about artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, and regulatory action on copyrights and AI, will apply with equal force to...more
The House IP Subcommittee’s “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part I—Interoperability of AI and Copyright Law” hearing has two former General Counsels of the US Copyright Office squaring off over whether...more
6/7/2023
/ Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc v Goldsmith ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Artists ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Derivative Works ,
Fair Use ,
Fine Art ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Photographs ,
Popular ,
Prince ,
SCOTUS ,
The Copyright Act ,
Transformative Use
Discussions held over the past several months regarding authorship of AI-generated works have suffered from at least two things—1) an outsized focus on whether the users of commercially available generative AI (GAI) can own...more
Many people were disappointed when the most-watched copyright case of the past 10 years, Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Google’s copying Java application programming interface (API) code, failed to yield better guidance...more
At the heart of digital transformation is disruption. That doesn’t always mean the kind of “disruption” that is the darling of VCs and technology blogs. Sometimes, it just means chaos. The sudden influx of software and data...more
The week of April 19 was an eventful one for practitioners following the evolution of potential artificial intelligence (AI) enforcement both in the United States and abroad, answering some questions regarding which...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a remarkable opinion in the long-running dispute between Oracle America and Google over Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java SE API for use on the Android platform. ...more
4/6/2021
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Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Fair Use ,
Google ,
Google LLC v Oracle America Inc ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Java ,
Oracle ,
SCOTUS ,
Transformative Use
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Pivot. Accelerate. Transform., the Digital Transformation and Data Economy team’s newsletter. Across the economy, businesses are using digital technology to pivot into innovative service...more
Learn how copyright can protect your software “Beyond Source Code” to cover both screen displays and UX, how the scope of software copyright law might impacted by the pending Supreme Court opinion in Oracle v. Google, and the...more
In May, BakerHostetler’s new Digital Transformation and Data Economy (DTDE) team presented a four-part webinar series for business leaders that covered the legal implications surrounding COVID-19. Panelists, including...more
The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges – launching groundbreaking collaboration among disparate industries and generating insightful data from uncommon sources....more
2/9/2017
/ Automotive Industry ,
Connected Cars ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Entertainment Industry ,
Events ,
FCC ,
Internet of Things ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Technology Sector ,
Telecommunications
I used to love working on cars. As a teenager I had a 1972 Karmann Ghia, which I could repair, MacGyver-like, with rubber bands, tinfoil, and sticks of chewing gum. But as automotive technology advanced, the prospect of...more
In 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. emphasized that “[t]he rights of a patentee or copyright holder are part of a ‘carefully crafted bargain,’… under which, once the patent or...more
10/13/2015
/ Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Functionality ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inventions ,
Monopolization ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
SCOTUS ,
Trademarks ,
Twentieth Century Fox ,
Young Lawyers
Courts, commentators and clients will be struggling for some time to assess the impact on software patents of Thursday’s Supreme Court decision in Alice v. CLS Bank. Interpreted one way, the decision kills patents directed at...more