Rare Full Court Rehearing Granted in Copyright Case Against Kat Von D’s Miles Davis Tattoo — It’s rare for a Circuit Court to rehear a case en banc. Even more rare: one of the leading copyright circuits to grant en banc rehearing to consider its long-standing, foundational precedent on the standard for copyright infringement. Copyright land will be paying close attention to this one.
The Importance of Copyright for African and Latin American Publishers — Report from an event organized by International Publishers Association during the 48th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, where representatives of publishers from African and Latin American countries met to discuss the challenges and opportunities for publishers. A common theme emerged: “while improving access to education and knowledge is an essential policy goal, weakening copyright protections in emerging publishing markets could undermine the very systems that sustain local authorship, educational production, and cultural diversity.”
AI company argues its use of scraped Westlaw legal data was transformative — A panel of Third Circuit judges heard oral arguments yesterday in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, the first case to reach an appellate court on the issue of fair use of copyrighted works to train an artificial intelligence model. Courthouse News reports on the arguments, which suggested some skepticism from the judges toward the AI developer’s arguments.
Generative AI and Copyright: The Significance of GEMA v. OpenAI (Munich, 2025) — Legal analysis of last November’s decision from the Regional Court of Munich in Germany, one of the earliest and most significant rulings on the use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models in continental Europe. The court there found that AI training and outputs may infringe copyright where song lyrics from identifiable works are reproduced in model outputs.