May 5, 2023
Pop star Ed Sheeran won a closely watched trial over allegations that his 2014 Grammy-winning song Thinking Out Loud copied key musical elements from Marvin Gaye’s classic 1973 soul groove Let’s Get It On. A federal jury in Manhattan rendered …
February 7, 2023
Stock photo provider Getty Images has sued artificial intelligence company Stability AI Inc, accusing it in a lawsuit made public on Monday of misusing more than 12 million Getty photos to train its Stable Diffusion AI image-generation system. The lawsuit, …
January 20, 2023
ountless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images …
December 14, 2022
Two songwriters have dropped their lawsuit claiming Grammy-winning musician Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit “Shake It Off,” according to court documents filed on Monday. Sean Hall and Nathan Butler told a Los Angeles federal judge …
October 14, 2022
Andy Warhol and Prince held center stage in a copyright case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that veered from Cheerios and “Mona Lisa” analogies to Justice Clarence Thomas’ enthusiasm for the “Purple Rain” showman. Despite the light nature of …
June 20, 2022
Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D’s use of a famous photograph of jazz great Miles Davis has led to what’s believed to be the first lawsuit over whether an image’s copyright protection extends to tattoos, pitting questions about artistic freedom …
June 6, 2022
The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” on Monday sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year’s blockbuster sequel “Top Gun: Maverick.” According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal …
June 6, 2022
Mariah Carey was hit with a copyright lawsuit Friday over her hit song “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” which allegedly infringed the rights to a song with the same name written by Andy Stone of the country pop …
February 9, 2022
The estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin sued Sirius XM’s Pandora Media Inc. on Monday, claiming the online music service owes royalties for streaming their material millions of times. Williams and Carlin’s estates, along with comedians Bill Engvall, Ron …
July 13, 2021
Film and television actor Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his movie character Borat, is suing a Massachusetts cannabis firm for $9 million because Cohen says the firm used his likeness on a billboard without his permission. Cohen and his …