Anyone thinking about securing a copyright for Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated work should pay attention to last month’s ruling in a Federal court in Washington D.C. In a ruling upholding the U.S. Copyright Office’s decision to not grant copyright protection to...
Depending on whom you ask, Internet Archives’ Great 78 Project” is either an attempt to digitize and preserve old vinyl records from the early to mid-20th century’s iconic artists or it is “blatant copyright infringement” and the “wholesale theft of generations of...
Andy Warhol, Pittsburgh native, died in 1987 and the rock musician Prince died in 2016, but they were at the center of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, where the court upheld, by a 7-2 vote, the copyright claim of photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The events that...
Thirty-five years after he died, Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol will be at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case this month to determine if he violated copyright law. Three years before his death in 1987, Warhol created a painting of the rock star Prince that was...
Balancing intellectual property rights concerning the COVID 19 vaccine while serving the public good is the dilemma facing our global population today. Failure to strike a balance creates a conflict between those living in developing countries and those in...
A decade-long copyright battle has ended with the Supreme Court landmark ruling in favor of Google. This decision lays a foundation for future software copyright cases, but the decision leaves many asking, “Is cutting and pasting software code actually fair...
