Social Media Ideas for Artist Rights

Moral rights: the risk of modifying a creator’s work without their permission

In commercial transactions, the acquisition of an asset usually grants the buyer an almost absolute power over the asset: the freedom to use it, adapt it or modify it according to...

Do Photographers Have the Right to Sell Every Image They've Taken?

A photographer was hired to shoot a musician for a magazine. Months later, she started selling prints from that session. The musician says she never agreed to any of that — and now...

Confirmation Regarding Existing Performance Rights

Liza Diño echoes IPOPHL’s reminder to concertgoers: Respect artists, producers

Fire and Ice Entertainment CEO Liza Diño-Seguerra reiterated her stance on recording concerts following a reminder from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL)...

Court Enters Partial Summary Judgment on Copyright, Lanham Act, and DMCA Claims Arising from Breakdown of Art Licensing...

Art Akiane, LLC v. Art & SoulWorks LLC et al., No. 1:19-CV-02952, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Mar. 31, 2026) (Chang, J.). Judge Chang resolved numerous claims and defenses arising from...

You Made It With AI. Do You Own It? 

Aditya Ezhuthachan is an attorney focused on entertainment law with Beverly Hills-based Pessah Law Group. In the following piece, his The post You Made It With AI. Do You Own It? ...

OUTPUT v. INPUT- Copyright Ownership Challenges in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence can now compose music, generate paintings and photographs, draft books and screenplays, and write computer programs in seconds. That speed has created an un...

Copyright, Fair Use and Collage Art

Photographer Barbara Karant has filed a copyright lawsuit against the artist Mickalene Thomas. The case shows how much fair use has changed in just a few years. Source

Jason Isbell, Activist Artist David Lowery, and Others Fire Off Suno Class Action Alleging Likeness and Identity Rights...

We’ve been hearing plenty about Suno’s allegedly infringing training process and outputs. But what about its alleged publicity and likeness rights violations? Now, the platform is...

Suno Loses Bid To Dismiss Artists' AI Copyright Claims

A Massachusetts federal judge has allowed independent recording artists to proceed with copyright claims that AI-music generator Suno Inc. created unauthorized derivative works and...

‘The Implications Are Global’: International Music Publishers Welcomes Australian Government’s ‘Landmark’ Statement on A...

Australia's PM remarked that writers, musicians, artists and journalists “must retain ownership and control of their work,” and that “our laws will spell that out, plain as day."

Copyright Claims Board Tackles Implied Licenses

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued a new final determination, this time examining claims of an implied license and a distribution deal gone bad. Source

Copyright law review targets AI training and creator compensation

PE Music Rights Co. Sues Anthropic, Suno Over AI Training

Private equity music publisher Round Hill Music has sued Anthropic, Suno and web-scraping provider Bright Data in separate federal lawsuits in California, accusing the companies of...

Mapfumo-Makore tiff puts spotlight on music rights

DAKARAI MASHAVA Assistant Editor FOR many, chimurenga music legend Thomas ‘Mukanya’ Mapfumo is the greatest Zimbabwean musician who ever walked the earth.... To access t...

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of ar...

‘Our Laws Will Spell That Out Plain as Day:’ Australia’s Prime Minister Commits to Copyright Protections In AI Age

"No company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist's control, and that includes the artist's control of the price and value of thei...

Digital Privacy for Artists

By Thea Rodgers. This skills session enables participants to take immediate actions and understand the larger commitments and investments artists can make to ensure digital privacy...

AI and Protecting a Celebrity’s voice through Trademark

The following MBW op/ed comes from Music Attorneys Heidy Vaquerano and Cynthia Katz at Fox Rothschild. Source

Don’t Be an Edge Case at the CCB

A pair of final determinations at the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) have made one thing clear: You don't want to be an edge case before the board. Source

At least one music apocalypse has been averted. Here’s what you need to know.

Copyright is one of the oldest laws still in use. The rules regarding the “right to copy” intellectual property were first protected by Great Britain’s Statute of Anne in 1710. The...

Originality Without Authorship: Analysing the Copyright Office’s Decision in Thaler

In light of the Copyright Office’s refusal to register Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI-generated artwork, holding that DABUS cannot be recognised as its author, Vikram Raj Nanda and Sumukh...

3 Count: Nitter Picking

X shutters Nitter with legal threat, photographer sues Elizabeth Peyton over Oasis painting and FlavaWorks files RICO case against alleged pirates. Source

Photographer Sues Artist Over Alleged Appropriation of More Than a Dozen of Her Images

A photographer has sued popular artist Mickalene Thomas for allegedly appropriating more than a dozen of her images without consent or attribution. [Read More]