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Latest News in Media & Entertainment

  • July 24, 2025

    Miami Van Gogh Cafe, Museum Exhibitor Settle TM Suit

    A company that runs an immersive Vincent van Gogh-themed exhibit has reached a deal to settle trademark infringement claims it brought against Miami's Van Gogh Cafe.

  • July 24, 2025

    Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training

    A California federal court’s recent ruling that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • July 24, 2025

    Post-Gazette Says Union Attys Can't Get 'Market Rate' Fees

    The law firm of Jubelirer Pass & Intrieri PC should not be able to recover "market rate" attorney fees when it charged several unions at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "low bono" prices to defend pickets, the newspaper publisher told a state court.

  • July 23, 2025

    8th Circ. Hands MyPillow CEO Win In 'Prove Mike Wrong' Fight

    The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday unwound a software developer's success in forcing Mike Lindell to pay up on the $5 million "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge" by showing the MyPillow CEO was wrong about the 2020 presidential election, saying an arbitration panel overstepped in awarding the prize money.

  • July 23, 2025

    Full Fed. Circ. Won't Disturb Machine Learning Patent Ruling

    The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to reconsider its first-ever patent eligibility decision involving machine learning, leaving in place a panel's April findings that applying established machine learning methods to a new area cannot be patented.

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