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U.S. copyright law protects human-authored expression, not works generated purely by generative AI. When a human author uses generative AI tools to create their work, the scope of...

Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corp., Appeal Nos. 2021-2296, 2021-2297, 2022-1070 (Fed. Cir. April 3, 2023) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit...

Figuring out the correct boundaries of software copyright protection is a difficult task. As several judges have put it, “applying copyright law to computer programs is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces do not quite fit.” Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...

SAS has suffered another legal setback in a copyright lawsuit with a U.K.-based firm that dates back over a decade. What happens now in the battle between World Programming Ltd. and the Cary-based global software firm is unclear.

A divided Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to revive SAS Institute's copyright lawsuit over World Programming Ltd.'s software, more than a year after the appeals court heard oral arguments on whether a Texas federal judge erred in tossing the case after a pretrial hearing.

Interdigital v. Xiaomi”) held,  inter alia, that it is impermissible for a court in one sovereign jurisdiction to injunct a party before it from pursuing its cause before a court in another jurisdiction, where such latter jurisdiction is the only competent forum. 1 The Delhi HC carved out an exception holding that such an injunction would be permissible in rare instances where continuation of the later proceedings are ‘ vexatious’ or ‘ oppressive’ to the proceedings pending before t...