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Month: March 2026

Runway AI sued yet again for alleged DMCA violation in 4th copyright case against it. Total = 86 copyright suits v. AI cos.

Runway AI just got sued in its 4th copyright lawsuit filed against it. Three of them allege DMCA anti-circumvention violations related to YouTube videos Runway AI allegedly used to train its AI models. All three were filed in the past month: Businessing v. Runway AI, Ace Cam v. Runway AI, and Gardner v. Runway AI.…
Read more: Runway AI sued yet again for alleged DMCA violation in 4th copyright case against it. Total = 86 copyright suits v. AI cos.
Supreme Court denies cert in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Declines to hear 1st AI-related case.

The Supreme Court announced it denied the cert petition in its first AI-related case, Thaler v. Perlmutter. The Court granted no certs from its Friday conference. It presents the question: “Whether works outputted by an AI system without adirect, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.” A bit of a surprise to…
Read more: Supreme Court denies cert in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Declines to hear 1st AI-related case.
Musk v. Altman: The battle of the law professors. Parties spar over Peter Frumkin, Daniel Hemel, John Coates’ expert testimony, some in rebuttal to Musk’s expert David Schizer.

The Trial of the Century is set to begin in Musk v. Altman on April 27, 2026. The parties have been filing their pre-trial papers that we will preview this month. First up is the interesting skirmish between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over Altman’s three experts who are prominent law professors in the area…
Read more: Musk v. Altman: The battle of the law professors. Parties spar over Peter Frumkin, Daniel Hemel, John Coates’ expert testimony, some in rebuttal to Musk’s expert David Schizer.

Month: March 2026

Runway AI sued yet again for alleged DMCA violation in 4th copyright case against it. Total = 86 copyright suits v. AI cos.

Supreme Court denies cert in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Declines to hear 1st AI-related case.

Musk v. Altman: The battle of the law professors. Parties spar over Peter Frumkin, Daniel Hemel, John Coates’ expert testimony, some in rebuttal to Musk’s expert David Schizer.