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.