FONTS AND TYPFACES-WHEN DO YOU NEED TO LICENSE?
Brands and designers often use existing typefaces and fonts to adapt and create logos, product packaging, websites, and other commercial assets that establish the identity of a brand. Whether these creative uses require a license from a font owner or type foundry is complex and depends on how the typeface or fonts are adapted and
“Dinner With Friends” Turned “Dinner with Frenemies”
Things are heating up on TikTok this week as we see another IP showdown between brands. The newest dispute involves Meredith Hayden, a content creator and founder of Wishbone Kitchen, which started as a private chef and catering business, who called out Condé Nast subsidiary, Bon Appétit over its new online series, which features the
California Passes AI Digital Replica Law for Performers
Overview On September 17, 2024, California A.B. 2602 was signed into law adding section 927 to the Labor Code, effective January 1, 2025. The Law is designed to protect individuals from unfair contracts and the possibility of being replaced by their digital replica. After the effective date, to create enforceable contracts with performers that would
California Expands Its Post-Mortem Right of Publicity Law to Cover AI Digital Replicas
Overview California A.B. 1836 amends section 3344.1 of the California Civil Code, which covers the post-mortem intellectual property rights for a deceased personality. It expands the coverage of those rights to include digital replicas and lays down new penalties for violating those post-mortem digital replica rights. According to the new regulations, a person that produces,
Technological Innovations do not Negate the Fundamental Principles of Copyright Law and the Fair Use Doctrine
As we are all currently witnessing with the rise of generative artificial intelligence and its effects on traditional media, the advent of novel technology causes ripples throughout society at large, including the law, as it raises serious questions about the protections owed to creative expression. However, as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently held
Cowan DeBaets & Co-Counsel File Federal Class Action Copyright Infringement Suit Against Anthropic on Behalf of Authors For Taking and Exploiting Pirated Books
On August 19, 2024, Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP, Lieff Cabraser, and Susman Godfrey, LLP filed a federal class action copyright infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of California on behalf of a class of authors of an array of works of fiction and nonfiction against Anthropic PBC. AI-company Anthropic released the first
Diving Deeper into Artificial Intelligence: Understanding the Risks in Incorporating AI Technology into the Workplace
The advent of artificial intelligence, or AI, brings greatly diverse opportunities to a wide range of industries and endeavors in many fields. Its applications as an academic resource and its capacity to generate new content have garnered much attention in recent months. However, there are a number of important legal risks to weigh in using
Seven CDAS Attorneys Names to Best Lawyers in America 2024 Edition
Seven CDAS attorneys have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. Published since 1983, Best Lawyers awards are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The CDAS attorneys included in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America are: Frederick P. Bimbler, Entertainment Law
The Perils of AI Art: Craiyon’s Commercialization Gamble
Craiyon—formerly known as DALL-E Mini—has captured the attention of the art and legal world in recent weeks, including this very blog in our first post on this fascinating service. The website, which touts itself as having the ability to produce “AI model drawing images from any prompt,” is undisputedly innovative and fun to use, yet
AI ART MODEL CREATES INTERESTING DRAWINGS AND COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS
Craiyon (formerly known as DALL-E mini) is an AI-powered art model that draws collages of images based on, literally, “any prompt” entered by a user. The model’s developers have explained that it was “trained by looking at millions of images from the internet with their associated captions” and that “[o]ver time, it learns how to