I’ve left much of the discussion of Napster, Gnutella and other so-called “peer-to-peer” technologies to my learned friend and colleague Mark Gibbs. But an exchange with publisher and open source guru ...

The recent class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, led by the Authors Guild and a group of authors, is a watershed moment for the AI industry. It raises critical questions about ethics, intellectual ...

An internet firm hires an attorney to review its Google Ads account registration responses to help it secure internet advertising. The law firm uses the firm's confidential intellectual property ...

Intellectual property (IP) is any innovation, creative work or discovery that can ultimately be filed as a patent, copyright or trademark to secure ownership and anchor opportunities for ...

With every new iteration of technology, it becomes increasingly easier to not only generate new creative works, but also to copy people’s creative outputs. The computer, the Internet, and mobile ...

It’s rare that a licensor company will consider placing a dollar value on a future breach of its intellectual property rights. But that’s what happened in a recent software license infringement case.

Sources from the Founding Era, as well as 19th-century court decisions and additional documents, confirm that intellectual property rights are property. The Supreme Court and lower federal courts in ...

Intellectual property (IP), whether it’s Apple’s proprietary operating system or the recipe for Coca-Cola, is highly valuable — sometimes worth millions of dollars. Using intellectual property without ...