Estée Lauder Companies has won an early procedural victory in its trademark dispute with Walmart. U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera of the Central District of California refused to dismiss the suit and ruled that the cosmetics giant can pursue claims beyond the 17 products it had initially confirmed as fake. Judge Clears Way for Discovery […]
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Warner Chappell Music has joined Sony Music Publishing in a federal lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude. It was filed in the Northern District of California on August 28. The complaint also names CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The publishing arms of all three major music groups are now
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Independent music publisher Round Hill Music has filed a federal lawsuit in California against Suno and Anthropic. They allege that the AI companies copied its catalog without authorization to train their AI systems. The publisher controls rights to more than 10,000 works. This includes the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of
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Can Copyright Laws Keep Up with Technological Advancements? On June 30, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held a hearing. Titled “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40,” the hearing assessed whether U.S. copyright and digital protection laws have kept pace with online piracy and unauthorized
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Warner Music Group and cookie chain Crumbl have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit stemming from Crumbl’s unauthorized use of music in social media marketing. This copyright settlement ends a long-standing battle that began in April 2025. More than 150 Recordings Illegally Used for Advertising WMG alleged Crumbl used at least 159 protected recordings — featuring
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At the start of the year, a class-action copyright lawsuit on behalf of almost 500,000 authors alleged that the AI company Anthropic pirated millions of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude. The case was first filed on August 19, 2024, by three authors—Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber. A judge delivered
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A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, has secured a $19.5 million default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The website is a sprawling shadow library that mirrors the catalogs of piracy havens Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. Anna’s Archive hosts roughly 99 million books and academic papers. The ruling was handed
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A coalition of major publishing houses — including Cengage, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, and Hachette — has filed a federal lawsuit against Meta in Manhattan. They accuse the tech giant of unlawfully harvesting millions of copyrighted works to train its Llama AI models. Author Scott Turow is also among the plaintiffs in the proposed class action.
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A recent Supreme Court ruling in Cox Communications v. Sony Music has upended copyright enforcement in the U.S. The court decided that internet service providers cannot be held liable for customers who pirate content unless they actively encourage it. The decision effectively closed a major legal avenue for rights holders. This decision is prompting a
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that internet service provider Cox Communications is not contributorily liable for copyright infringement carried out by its subscribers. This unanimous landmark decision is a significant victory for ISPs nationwide. Copyright Infringement Claims Mostly Ignored Sony Music and other rights holders sued Cox after the ISP received over 163,000 infringement
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