The company behind former President Donald Trump’s new sneaker line filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the sale and promotion of counterfeit shoes by a series of people and business entities. The suit, filed in federal court in Arizona, claims trademark and copyright violations. The defendants are not named — the plaintiffs said they would be […]
Producer Steven Paul — who is said to be among suitors to take control of Paramount Global and has a deal to co-produce and finance films with the National Amusement-controlled company — has been found liable for copyright infringement in a lawsuit accusing him of manufacturing and distributing counterfeit DVDs of faith-based film I Believe, a […]
The Centre for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has said it has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its closest business partner, Microsoft, marking a new front in the legal battle between news publications fighting against unauthorised use of their content on artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. The nonprofit, which produces the Mother Jones and Reveal news outlets, said […]
BOSTON (AP) — Big record companies are suing artificial intelligence song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI music startups are exploiting the recorded works of artists from Chuck Berry to Mariah Carey. The Recording Industry Association of America announced the lawsuits Monday brought by labels including Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recordings […]
Chipmaker Micron Technology will pay semiconductor company Netlist $445m in damages for violating its patent rights in memory-module technology for high-performance computing, a US jury said on Thursday (23 May). Jurors in the US found that Micron’s semiconductor-memory products infringe two Netlist patents related to technology for improving the performance of memory modules. “We are […]
E-commerce giant Shopify has scored a legal victory after a Delaware, US, federal court overturned a jury’s decision that required the company to pay $40m for patent infringement, Reuters reported. The lawsuit, filed by patent-holding plaintiff Express Mobile in 2019, alleged Shopify’s website-building tools infringed on its patents related to mobile content delivery. According to […]
A group of eight US newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots. The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in a New […]
For more than a week this month, any Minnesotan yet to take down their Christmas tree had unlikely company: Senior U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen’s 12th-floor courtroom in Minneapolis. Nearly a dozen artificial Christmas trees at the center of a long-running patent infringement lawsuit adorned Erickson’s courtroom throughout a trial that ended with a jury […]
The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will uphold a U.S. International Trade Commission order banning the sale of certain Apple Watches. According to a release by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai declined to reverse an Oct. 26 ITC decision that found a blood-oxygen tracking feature in Apple Watches infringed […]