Tag: Music

Copyright, Entertainment

Ping® by Adlerlaw Companies & Artists Making Headlines For The Wrong Reasons

This month Ping® by Adlerlaw looks at recent copyright lawsuits and the companies and artists making headlines for the wrong reasons, such as OpenAI, The White Stripes, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla and Soulja Boy, all sued for Copyright Infringement

A curated snippet of each case is summarized below.

Copyright Lawsuit Weekly Update

OpenAI defeats news outlets’ copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now Reuters

A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news  

White Stripes Drop ‘Seven Nation Army’ Copyright Lawsuit Against Trump

Rolling Stone

The White Stripes have dismissed their copyright infringement lawsuit against Donald Trump over the use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ in a short video.

Plies Sues Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla and Soulja Boy for Copyright Infringement – Report

XXL Mag

According to a complaint filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday (November 6), GloRilla’s recent hit Wanna Be sampled Soulja Boy’s 2010 track Pretty Boy Swag, as did the Wanna Be remix featuring Cardi B.

Copyright Case Between Deborah Roberts and Lynthia Edwards Continues

Art News

A copyright infringement lawsuit between two collage artists, Deborah Roberts and Lynthia Edwards Continues Without a Victory The two artists both work with collage, often using young Black girls as focal points in their work.

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Business, Copyright, Creative Content, Entertainment, Law, Media, Music

Ping® by Adlerlaw – The Copyright Implications Of AI-Generated Music

Do you feel like the subject of AI has entered almost every conversation?

This month’s issue of the Ping® Newsletter looks at the Copyright Implications of AI-Generated Music.

For creative professionals and especially musicians, trying to evaluate the impact of AI on both creative and commercial rights and music, raises more questions than it answers. For our quick and by no means exhaustive summary of some of these questions, read more below.

The Copyright implications of AI-generated music is fast becoming a major issue as AI tools capable of creating music that mimics human artists have proliferated. Some key questions include whether AI-generated music can be copyrighted, who owns the rights to AI-generated music, and whether using copyrighted works to train AI models constitutes infringement.

For a discussion of four questions on this topic, visit the Ping® post on adler-law.com. Those questions are:

1. What Is The Current Legal Stance?

2. How Much Human Involvement is Necessary?

3. What Is The The Originality Requirement.

4. What Is Shaping The Ongoing Debate?

Read the full article here.

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