Image used under license from Shutterstock.com. The Writer’s Guild of America (“WGA”) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“SAG-AFTRA”) garnered national attention when they went on strike to advocate for their employment demands this summer.[1] …
The Generative AI Battle Continues: Comedian Sarah Silverman May Have Won the Fight, but Will OpenAI Win the War?
Image used under license from Shutterstock.com. In July 2023, comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey sued OpenAI, the parent company of Chat-GPT, for copyright infringement.[1] The suit contains a total of six claims: copyright infringement, violation …
Artists Against AI: Recent Lawsuit Challenges the Blurred Line Between Style Emulation and Wrongful Copying
By Emma Quinn Image used under license from Shutterstock.com. Kelly McKernan is a visual artist who has posted their paintings on art-sharing website DeviantArt for the past twenty years.[1] When the first widely used AI art generators came online last …
Faux or Faux Pas? The Case of the MetaBirkin
By Alyssa R. Garcia Image used under license from Shutterstock.com. In a novel intellectual property case, longtime luxury fashion house Hermès has brought a trademark infringement action against the creator of NFTs depicting faux-fur Hermès Birkin handbags.[1] The allure of an …




