Judge James Donato from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has denied a motion from US songwriter Maria Schneider to qualify her lawsuit against YouTube over the access to the Content ID copyright-protection tool into a class action case.

US composer and performer Maria Schneider has filed a class-action lawsuit against YouTube and parent companies Google and Alphabet in the US District Court in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division.

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The US Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 in favour of photographer Lynn Goldsmith in the copyright case she filed against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWF) for the use of a 1981 picture of Prince by the late artist.

“Lynn Goldsmith’s original works, like those of other photographers, are entitled to copyright protection, even against famous artists,” wrote the court in the majority opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion, w...

The United States Southern District Court of New York has ordered Dylan Leong, a Singapore-based businessman, to pay $900,000 in damages to American artist and designer Kaws (real name Brian Donnelly) for the willful infringement his copyright.

Donnelly filed in November 2021 a copyright infringement lawsuit against Leong and his businesses – The Penthouse Theory and The Penthouse Collective — in which he accused them of of producing and selling replicas of the his works in nine types of goo...