Gilligan: A lesson in copyright and the importance of local journalism — “It takes our newsroom of about 30 people to put out a paper every day, whether it is digital or print. But let’s focus for a minute on the seven local news reporters who cover seven counties across three states. These folks go to city council, county supervisors and school board meetings in dozens of communities across that area. They comb through committee meeting agendas and minutes, request contracts and documents, dig through court filings and review permit requests. They build relationships with sources, talk to taxpayers and conduct dozens of interviews every week. And all that is just for the coverage of local government entities, which makes up maybe half of our local news content.”
Summary of Summary Judgment — Legal strategist David Atkinson takes a close look at the summary judgment motions filed by OpenAI and Microsoft in the closely watched copyright litigation over the use of copyrighted works to train OpenAI’s frontier generative AI models, currently in front of the Southern District of New York. He continues his analysis in a second post, Some More Summary Judgment Judgments.
Motion Picture Association Strikes Deal with ByteDance for IP Protections in AI Video, Image Models — “The memorandum of understanding (MOU) comes months after the MPA in February sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter and denounced the company following the release of Seedance 2.0, which saw creators produce riffs on actors including Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.”
Fifth Circuit Looks at “Embedding” From a Fresh Angle, Explores Whether URLs Are CMI — Analysis of the recent Fifth Circuit decision in Emmerich v. Particle Media, which diverged from Ninth Circuit precedent on the public display right, though perhaps not by much.
Reggaeton Copyright Lawsuit Ruling Protects 2,000 Songs — “The reversal delivers a major victory not only for Bad Bunny but for more than 150 artists targeted by the reggaeton lawsuit. Karol G, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Drake, Pitbull, Luis Fonsi and Justin Bieber are among the defendants accused of using a rhythm Steely & Clevie say originated with their work.”