by Kelly Malloy | Sep 26, 2023 | Associate, Blog, Copyright
This is an update to a blog post dated February 25, 2022. On August 18, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released an Opinion denying Plaintiff Stephen Thaler copyright protection for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, a work of visual art...
by Tyler Litwak | Sep 5, 2023 | Associate, Blog, Copyright
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and its integration into everyday use in modern society has brought to the forefront a multitude of complex issues, especially those concerning copyright law. The relationship between AI and copyright protection is...
by Victor Bruzos | Aug 29, 2023 | Analyst, Blog, Copyright
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has delivered a significant ruling in the case of Valancourt Books v. Garland. The court determined that the Copyright Office’s mandatory deposit requirement (17 U.S.C. §407) is an unconstitutional taking....
by Oliver Ruiz | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Copyright
The Supreme Court issued a decision today In a highly-followed case involving fair use defenses that were asserted by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. The Foundation asserted the defenses in a case that alleged that Andy Warhol’s use of photographs of the...
by Kelly Malloy | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog, Copyright
The term of copyright protection in Canada was recently extended from fifty (50) years after the life of the author to seventy (70) years after the life of the author. This significant change went into effect on December 30, 2022, as part of Canada’s Budget...
by Kelly Malloy | Nov 15, 2022 | Associate, Blog, Copyright
As an update to a blog entry on June 18, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, LP in February of this year. By way of background, H&M argued that Unicolors’ copyright registration was invalid because Unicolors...
