Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Generative AI, Andy Warhol ‘Fair Use’ Lead 2023 Copyright Issues; Bloomberg Law, December 28, 2022

Isaiah Poritz, Bloomberg Law; Generative AI, Andy Warhol ‘Fair Use’ Lead 2023 Copyright Issues

"How copyright law applies to the fast-growing generative artificial intelligence industry, and the US Supreme Court’s ruling in a case concerning Andy Warhol’s artistic use of a photograph of Prince are among the most important copyright issues heading into 2023.

Other major copyright cases in the new year include the high court’s expected decision on whether to hear a multimillion-dollar dispute involving allegations that Google LLC illegally scraped lyrics from the crowd-sourced lyric annotation website Genius. 

“Never before has content and intellectual property been so important and we are starting to see that now in terms of the Supreme Court’s docket,” said copyright attorney Scott Burroughs of the firm Doniger Burroughs PC, which helped write a friend-of-the-court brief asking the justices to take the lyrics case.

In one of the most active federal appeals courts for copyright law, two photographers are challenging the 15-year-old “server test.” That precedent holds that a website displaying an embedded Instagram post can’t be held liable for copyright infringement because the image isn’t hosted on the website’s servers." 

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