On March 12, 2024 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office…

The Music Modernization Act (MMA), which took effect in October 2018, was enacted primarily to…

On February 21, 2024, Reuters reported that the social media platform Reddit is partnering with…

The Vesuvius Competition, a machine learning and computer vision competition focused on the Herculaneum Papyri,…

On March 10, 2024 a select few in the film industry will be presented with…

The American Museum of Natural History in New York, one of the most visited museums…

The traditional Museum Bowl, which pits leading art museums in the cities represented by the…

On January 22, 2024 the Ram Mandir temple in Ayodhyh, India, a northern India pilgrimage…

The Colorado Privacy Act, a comprehensive consumer data privacy law that grants Colorado consumers new…

Even though the copyright in the earliest version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain…

The Music Licensing Modernization Act (“MLMA”), one of three parts of the Music Modernization Act…

In November 2023, OpenAI released custom versions of ChatGPT, called GPTs. Instead of keeping a…

On January 1, 2024, Steamboat Willie, featuring the original Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain…

While Mickey Mouse is getting most of the attention surrounding Public Domain Day 2024, it…

On December 27, 2023, The New York Times (“The Times”) filed a complaint (“Complaint”) against…

After considerable debate, on December 8, 2023 the European Union reached a provisional agreement on…

As more and more cultural institutions — including the British Museum — have removed the…

In order to train generative AI algorithms, AI companies scrape vast amounts of information from…

On December 5, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued the…

In May, 2021 (which seems like decades ago in the field of artificial intelligence), we…

A federal district judge for the Northern District of California dismissed most claims by Sarah…

Warner Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, filed its opening…

The island nation of Tuvalu is set to become the world’s first digital nation. Due…

Through February 2024, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is exhibiting works from the…

The Tate Modern in London has just announced a major 2025 solo exhibition of the…

In “NFTs: Where Are We Now?” we discussed evolving uses of NFTs that are replacing…

Joint ownership of works of art, as previously reported, is a creative way to stretch…