Murals are more than just colorful decorations to urban landscapes. They are powerful expressions of an artist's vision. As a mural artist in California, your work highlights your creativity and the community's spirit. However, the unauthorized alteration or...
Collaborating and creating art together can be a beautiful and fulfilling experience for artists. It allows them to bring their unique perspectives and talents together to create something new and exciting. However, collaborations can also raise complex legal issues,...
On April 8, Paramount Pictures succeeded in having a lawsuit dismissed involving the 2022 hit movie Top Gun: Maverick. The plaintiffs alleged that the new movie borrowed excessively from a 1983 magazine article that had sparked the original "Top Gun" movie. Judge...
Millions of people enjoy games regularly, whether doing their daily crossword puzzles or regular games of Scrabble. Many of these same people have added Wordle to their routine, often posting their results online. The game gives players six attempts to guess a...
I have spent recent months talking about cases involving AI developers’ use of preexisting content for training their platforms. The plaintiff in these cases often is a group of copyright owners, e.g., visual artists or writers. That paradigm decidedly shifted when...
AI appropriation of intellectual property is the biggest issue in IP law right now. While we recently focused on a group of published authors, we now follow up on an August post focusing on claims made by illustrators Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz....
In August, we wrote about how DALL-E 2, Microsoft Image Creator and other artificial intelligence technology use visual artists and photographers' work to learn how to generate images based on user prompts. This high-stakes question of whether the unauthorized use of...
AI system DALL-E 2, Microsoft Image Creator and others enable users to create realistic images and visual art. The user enters a series of prompts and then gets an image. OpenAI, which also made Chat-GPT, created the system. The art generator can create new works...
Pop star Ed Sheeran is famous for his candid songs of love and heartbreak while bridging the sounds of pop, soul, hip-hop, folk, dance, and rock. He’s been one of the world’s biggest music stars since his major label debut in 2011 entitled +. His second album, 2014’s...
In 1998, Disney waged a zealous effort to extend its copyright protections to 95 years (for corporate copyrights) and 70 years after the death of an individual creator. Detractors called it the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, which the Supreme Court upheld in 2003. Now...
