By 1930, efforts began in New York to replace Mother’s Day with Parent’s Day because men were more than just breadwinners. Those efforts didn’t catch on, probably because in that era, women often spent more time in the home.

Generally, federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over copyright cases, and often, this presents an insurmountable paywall for individual artists and small businesses to vindicate their rights, especially where the value of the individual copyrighted works are relatively low.

Did a federal court in Louisiana recently decide that US copyrights are global rights? It seems so.

One of his most famous songs, “Lose Yourself” was recently at the center of a lawsuit. In 2019, Eminem’s  publishing company Eight Mile Style sued Spotify claiming that Spotify streamed a number of its musical compositions without proper licenses.

One of the most common challenges is whether AI should be free to train on data that is protected by copyright and owned by third parties without first obtaining permission.

The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) recently published its latest report on AI and “copyrightability.” In short, the USCO considers only some AI-generated works to be sufficiently creative as to deserve copyright protection, and thus, registration.

Back in the 1940’s assignments by independent contractors could be permanent and irrevocable. Things changed in 1976, when Congress overhauled the Copyright Act.