Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed SoundExchange's $150 million lawsuit against SiriusXM, finding that the performance rights organization lacks legal standing to pursue litigation against broadcasters.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into business operations - from automating workflows to generating creative content - companies must grapple with a complex web of intellectual property (IP) considerations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – most notably generative AI like ChatGPT, Midjourney®, and Google's Veo 3 [require a mark?] text-to-video model – is rapidly reshaping industries, revolutionizing everything from content creation to complex problem-solving.

On July 9, 2025, the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs ("JURI") published a study examining how generative artificial intelligence ("AI") interacts with European Union copyright law.

Expanding a brand into a new category can be an exciting time. It can also be one of the riskiest moves a brand can make. Branding is more than logos or ad campaigns.

Perceptix Technologies LLC has accused Meta Platforms (8:25-cv-01404) of infringing a single patent generally related to a certain "headset for a user specific audio service...

After years of preparation and a decidedly rocky start to ICANN’s New gTLD Program due to a glitch in the gTLD application system, the applications are in, and ICANN will soon begin evaluating the TLD candidates.

Over the past decade, pundits have predicted that new companies harnessing the internet and related electronic devices would bring about the end of the record industry, print newspapers, and brick-and-mortar bookstores.

The Internet is about to become a much bigger and more complex place for trademark owners.

The Supreme Court of California held that it is a violation of California law for businesses to request and record a credit card holder’s ZIP code in connection with credit card transactions. Under California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971, businesses are prohibited from requesting that cardholders supply personal identification information in connection with credit card transactions.

In a case with major implications for retailers and marketers, the Supreme Court of California ruled on February 10, 2011 that state law prohibits businesses from requesting and recording ZIP codes from consumers prior to credit card transactions, including requests for use in marketing.

On March 11, 2011, the FTC announced that it had reached a settlement with the social networking site Twitter regarding privacy failures on the site to adequately safeguard user information, which led to two high-profile hacker attacks in 2009.