Laion case could steer EU AI copyright reform
September 09, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
Germany’s top civil court is poised to send a copyright dispute between a photographer and AI dataset provider Laion to the EU's top court, raising questions over text and data mining, machine-readable opt-out... (more story)
India's DABUS copyright test may not work for everyday AI users
September 08, 2026
| Freny Patel
India’s Copyright Office identified the human author for artwork generated by Stephen Thaler's DABUS-artificial intelligence system, but doing so for outputs produced through commercial generative-AI tools may... (more story)
OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct
September 04, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law,... (more story)
Trump DOJ sets unmatched pace for statements of interest in IP cases
September 04, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has waded into private intellectual property litigation at nearly three times the rate of his first administration and more frequently than any recent predecessor. B... (more story)
USPTO advisory committee lapse erodes accountability, former members say
September 04, 2026
| Nick Robertson
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s public advisory committees haven’t met for nearly two years, missing statutory deadlines and remaining largely vacant. Their partial reconstitution has yet to restore an im... (more story)
Kraftwerk sample saga heads to next chapter after German copyright ruling
September 03, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
Pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk is “disappointed” in Germany’s top court ruling that its sample used by music producers falls into a copyright exception under a law that was reformed in 2021. But for uses... (more story)
India hotel copyright fight puts double-licensing question before Supreme Court
September 03, 2026
| Freny Patel
India's Supreme Court could clarify whether hotels need separate copyright licenses for television broadcasts when cable operators are already licensed, potentially defining where one licensing obligation ends... (more story)
Trump administration escalates AI training defense with US court statement
September 02, 2026
| Emma Whitford
President Donald Trump’s administration took its most forceful action to date defending artificial intelligence companies’ model training practices, telling a federal judge that a “narrow” fair use analysis wo... (more story)