By: Vincent Alfieri Universal Music Group has recently filed a lawsuit against Anthropic PBC, an Amazon backed startup, alleging that the company’s Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) chatbot infringes on the lyrics from multiple copyrighted songs.[1]  Universal’s complaint contains numerous side-by-side comparisons of the chatbot’s generated lyrics and the lyrics from copyrighted works.[2] When directed by a…

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By: Seth Bilbrey With venture capital firms and other investment companies flocking to social media to promote investment projects, courts are being forced to look at a depression era securities law to determine what exactly a “seller” is.[1] The 1933 Securities Act (“Securities Act”) has allowed investors who have purchased unregistered securities, or who were…

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By: Bethanie Ramsey On December 28, 2018, Nirvana, LLC[1](hereinafter “Nirvana”) filed a copyright and trademark claim against Marc Jacobs International (hereinafter “Jacobs”).[2]  Nirvana alleges that Jacobs used a smiley face on pieces of his Bootleg Redux Grunge collection that was “virtually identical” to the trademarked smiley face logo used on Nirvana merchandise.[3] In 1991, Kurt Cobain,…

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