Inside the Strange Copyright Fight Over America’s Most Famous Home Movie
Six decades after the JFK assassination, a conspiracy book dragged the Zapruder film into a new copyright dispute. A Dallas judge just decided which claims survive.
After 6,000 Romantasy Pages, Judge Hands Crave Plaintiff the Bill
The Crave copyright case was open and shut once a judge compared the books. Getting to the "shut" part took four years and $3.4 million in legal fees.
Studios, Labels and Scholars Say the Fifth Circuit Botched Vetter
Five new amicus briefs urge the Supreme Court to undo the Fifth Circuit's worldwide-reversion rule, warning it would sow international chaos while quietly stripping foreign creators of the very rights it claims to expand.
What’s Up With Copyright Lately?: Summer Breeze Edition
Reaction videos, reggaetón riddims, nine-year-old tweets, and a poet's second loss to Taylor Swift. The courts spent the run-up to summer clearing their dockets. Here's what piled up.
Double Shot’s Last Call: Will SCOTUS Review Worldwide Copyright Termination?
Four major music companies bought into a disputed copyright, hired a Supreme Court heavyweight, and filed a cert petition arguing that the Fifth Circuit sent U.S. termination rights on an unauthorized world tour. Now comes the hard part: getting four Justices to order another round.
Kat Von D Tattoo Case Headed for En Banc Review
The Ninth Circuit granted en banc rehearing in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, vacating the panel opinion and putting "total concept and feel" on the chopping block.
Judge’s First Take Favors Denims—But Will It Survive the Recut?
Tentative reactions to a tentative ruling: court’s draft order would hand Twitch streamer Denims a fair use win in Ethan Klein's reaction-video lawsuit, but the analysis it skipped could matter later.
Cox and Effect: Why Volitional Conduct Is AI Copyright’s Next Battleground
Dismissals, dueling summary-judgment briefs, and the first post-Cox AI rulings show how fast Cox v. Sony Music is reshaping copyright litigation—and where the next fight is heading.
Hatewatch This Space: Catching Up With Ethan Klein’s Reaction Video Lawsuits
A year after Klein sued three Twitch streamers over their Content Nuke reactions, only Denims is still fighting—and her motion for judgment on the pleadings raises a fair use question no reaction video case has squarely addressed.
Tenth Circuit Redeems Itself in ‘Tiger King’ Fair Use Case
A replacement opinion affirms Netflix’s fair use of a one-minute funeral clip—and gives documentary filmmakers the post-Warhol roadmap they’ve been waiting for.
Cox v. Sony Music Comes to Hollywood
The Supreme Court’s newest copyright decision is already being used to argue that an AI video generator trained on major studio content should be treated the same as an internet service provider.