The global artificial intelligence race is no longer defined solely by compute power and algorithmic breakthroughs. It is increasingly shaped by national copyright policies governing the ingestion of training data. As model builders race toward artificial general intelligence, they can run into a messy geopolitical…
(Source: Memorandum & Order, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream LLC v. Rebel Creamery LLC) It is back out of the freezer and into court for Van Leeuwen Ice Cream LLC v. Rebel Creamery LLC, after Rebel submitted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals…
Erling Haaland had a very “online” World Cup. As Norway ”rowed” its way through the tournament, social media reimagined its star striker as a Viking leader, a K-pop idol, and the star of an endless supply of memes, TikTok videos, and AI-generated videos. Most were…
The Supreme Court has granted a petition for writ of certiorari in the matter of RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing, v. PepsiCo, Inc. to determine if the strength of a trademark in a likelihood of confusion analysis is a question of fact for a jury,…
Popular drag queen and environmental activist Pattie Gonia is being sued for trademark infringement, and the internet is not quiet about it. Wyn Wiley took on the alter ego Pattie Gonia in late 2018 after posting a viral photo of herself hiking an outdoor trail…
The 2026 World Cup is in full swing across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. FIFA closely guards the intellectual property surrounding the World Cup, including word marks associated with the tournament and even the trade dress of the official trophy. But FIFA’s strict enforcement of…
The noise around AI adoption in the legal industry has reached deafening levels. Seemingly every other week one of the major players such as Anthropic, Harvey, or Legora announces a new model, plugin, platform, or tool to improve legal workflows, or a law firm announces…
Operation Bluebird, Inc. (“Bluebird”) and X Corp. are locked in a dispute over the future of the Twitter brand, stemming from the platform’s rebrand from “Twitter” to “X” in 2023. The TMCA covered the rebrand. In December 2025, Bluebird filed a petition with the Trademark…
The Dorsey Trademark, Copyright + Advertising team and the IP Litigation team attended the 2026 International Trademark Association Annual Meeting in London. The Dorsey team was represented by seventeen attorneys from Dorsey’s Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Dallas, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Beijing offices. We…
As artists and creators integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools into their work, courts are re-evaluating traditional notions of authorship under the Copyright Act of 1976. This past March, the issue of whether an AI system may qualify as an “author” under the Copyright Act reached…
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