United States: Copyright

On January 2, 2026, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict finding that tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (also known as Kat Von D) and her tattoo parlor, High Voltage Tattoo, did not infringe photographer...

n an important decision issued on January 12, 2026, the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling and held that the statutory termination of a grant of copyright causes the reversion of all rights to the original author or their heirs, including rights in foreign countries.

When OpenAI proposed producing 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in the sprawling AI copyright litigation against it, the generative AI behemoth likely assumed it could control what those logs would reveal.