Brett Trout

MARCH 11, 2025

Brett Trout Nikes reputation as an industry leader in athletic footwear is built on a foundation of innovation and aggressive protection of its intellectual property. Although the case was just settled, this lawsuit was not Nikes first foray into patent infringement litigationnor is it likely to be its last.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

I’m pleased to share a draft of a new paper, “ A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” This paper traces its origins to my 2021 expert declaration in an Emojico case. Have a stress reliever toy handy when you read this. I would welcome yours.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

But this new era of AI has not come without controversy, as authors and rights holders have launched waves of litigation against the companies that trained and released generative AI models, as well as their investors and affiliates, alleging violations of intellectual property rights. In Millette v. OpenAI, Inc.,

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Earlier this month, three artists initiated a lawsuit against Stability AI, DevianArt, and Midjourney, which are some of the leading A.I. The lawsuit alleges copyright infringement because these companies have been using images of the artists’ work to train their programs to produce similar work without their consent.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. In 2021, an application was filed to the US Copyright office, for copyright registration of a comic book consisting of text and images (created partly by a human and partly by AI tool “ Midjourney ”). Is the output of AI tools copyrightable?

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. 2021); McGucken v.

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