Baron App, Inc. d/b/a Cameo v. OpenAI, Inc., et al. is a case in the Northern District of California that pits a company supplying bespoke celebrity greetings against an AI company that provides AI-generated celebrity videos. The plaintiff has a registered trademark for CAMEO and uses it in connection with having live actors record videos…
Nwosuocha v. Glover et al. was a copyright infringement case that started in the Southern District of New York and found its final disposition in the Second Circuit. The case centered around an “incurable” defect in Nwosuocha’s claim that he was warned about and subsequently ignored. Emelike Nwosuocha (a/k/a Kid Wes) brought the claim of…
Flycatcher v. Affable Avenue, LLC. was a case in the Southern District of New York in which hallucinated citations from a large language model ended in sanctions for the offending attorney. Affable Avenue, represented by Steven Feldman, was among over a dozen defendants in the suit brought by Flycatcher. After Feldman entered a motion to dismiss,…
Cyril E. Vetter et al. v. Robert Resnik et al. was a case in the Fifth Circuit that examined ownership rights arising from the Copyright Act of 1909 and how they applied to the termination of foreign copyright rights. The work in question was “Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)” written by Vetter and Don…
Illinois Tamale Company, Inc. v. LC Trademarks, Inc. et al was a case that originated in the Eastern District of Illinois before being appealed to the Seventh Circuit. Illinois Tamale Company (d/b/a “IlTaco”) brought claims against Little Caesars under the Lanham Act for trademark infringement and false designation of origin, in addition to Illinois state…
Athos Overseas Limited Corp. v. YouTube, Inc. et al. was a case from the Eleventh Circuit originating from the Southern District of Florida in which Athos Overseas (“Athos”) alleged copyright infringement against YouTube based on the unauthorized posting of its copyrighted material. Following discovery, Athos filed a motion for partial summary judgment and YouTube filed…
Cloobeck v. Antonio R. Villaraigosa, et al. was an attempt to apply the Lanham Act in a political setting rather than a commercial one. Stephen Cloobeck and Antonio Villaraigosa were both running for governor in California (Cloobeck has since dropped out) before Cloobeck sued Villaraigosa for trademark infringement and unfair competition under the Lanham Act.…
In Neil Zlozower v. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., the storied Hall of Fame brought a motion for judgment on the pleadings in the Northern District of Ohio (that is, their home turf) after the plaintiff brought a claim for copyright infringement. The Hall of Fame countered with a motion…
Wildbird Llc. v. Wildride B. V. was an action in the Southern District of New York concerning two sets of trademarks (word marks and logos) that start with the same word: Wild. Both companies make wearable carriers for children; the plaintiff makes cinchable, cloth baby carriers while the defendant makes carriers for toddlers that have…
In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California’s case Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (which we wrote about here), the parties reached a historic settlement. It aims to distribute $1.5 billion among authors and publishers whose pirated works were used to train Anthropic’s large language model called Claude. The datasets made from the…