James Arkin

3 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |James Arkin

OpenAI Inc. urged a New York federal judge to unwind a “sweeping, unprecedented order” to preserve data for several copyright suits that it argued threatens privacy rights of hundreds of millions of users. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang’s order to “preserve and segregate all output log data” forces OpenAI to rescind users’ control over when and how their ChatGPT conversation data is used and retained, it said in a Tuesday filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

4 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Annelise Levy |James Arkin

A Ninth Circuit panel acknowledged a lower court erred in analyzing a workout app-maker’s Bike+ trademark but questioned whether the lapse is enough to revive its lawsuit accusing Peloton Interactive Inc. of infringement. A California district court bypassed analysis of the strength of World Champ Tech LLC’s mark after finding it was descriptive, even though there’s nothing in case law that says a court can do so, Judge Lucy H.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni |James Arkin

Rapper Eminem’s music publisher accused Meta Platforms Inc. of “rampantly” infringing his copyrights by offering his music to sync with photos and videos publicly streamed on its social media apps without permission. Meta had no license to store and distribute Eminem’s songs on its Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp platforms, according to a complaint filed by Eight Mile Style LLC and label Martin Affiliated LLC in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |James Arkin |Adam Taylor

Three appeals in federal patent-infringement lawsuits center on the legality of an East Texas judge’s unconventional choice to have juries answer a single yes-or-no question on whether defendants copied multiple patents rather than deciding separately whether each individual patent was infringed. In each case, District Judge Rodney Gilstrap rejected requests for separate, more specific verdict questions, and juries assessed tens or hundreds of millions in damages.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni |Kyle Jahner |James Arkin |Kartikay Mehrotra

President Donald Trump’s firing of Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter will stand for now as a judge ruled Wednesday she hadn’t shown she’d suffer irreparable harm. Perlmutter can’t resume her duties as director as her bid for a temporary restraining order was rejected by Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, who ruled from the bench during a hearing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.