At its October 16, 2026 conference, the Supreme Court will consider whether to review BMG Rights Management (US) LLC v. Vetter, No. 25-1391. The petition challenges Vetter v. Resnik, No. 25-30108 (5th Cir. Jan. 12, 2026), which held that renewal and termination under the Copyright Act recaptured rights in the 1962 composition “Double Shot (Of

In Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., No. 25-2153 (3d Cir. Sept. 29, 2026), the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the first federal appellate court to decide whether copying copyrighted material to train an artificial intelligence system qualifies as fair use, and it held that it did

In The Construction Specifications Institute, Inc. v. Zerodocs.com, Inc., No. 8:25-cv-00475-JWH-JDE (C.D. Cal. Sept. 1, 2026), Judge John W. Holcomb granted Zerodocs summary judgment on all remaining claims, holding that the divisions, numbers, titles, and taxonomy of CSI’s MasterFormat—the industry standard for organizing construction specifications—were not protectable by copyright. Zerodocs sold SimpleSpec, a library of

In Doe v. GitHub, Inc., No. 24-7700 (9th Cir. Sept. 16, 2026), a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel affirmed dismissal of claims under Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), holding that where generative-AI tools create new code rather than reproduce existing code from which CMI has been removed or altered, the omission of