This month Ping® by Adlerlaw looks at recent copyright lawsuits and the companies and artists making headlines for the wrong reasons, such as OpenAI, The White Stripes, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla and Soulja Boy, all sued for Copyright Infringement

A curated snippet of each case is summarized below.

Copyright Lawsuit Weekly Update

OpenAI defeats news outlets’ copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now Reuters

A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news  

White Stripes Drop ‘Seven Nation Army’ Copyright Lawsuit Against Trump

Rolling Stone

The White Stripes have dismissed their copyright infringement lawsuit against Donald Trump over the use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ in a short video.

Plies Sues Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla and Soulja Boy for Copyright Infringement – Report

XXL Mag

According to a complaint filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday (November 6), GloRilla’s recent hit Wanna Be sampled Soulja Boy’s 2010 track Pretty Boy Swag, as did the Wanna Be remix featuring Cardi B.

Copyright Case Between Deborah Roberts and Lynthia Edwards Continues

Art News

A copyright infringement lawsuit between two collage artists, Deborah Roberts and Lynthia Edwards Continues Without a Victory The two artists both work with collage, often using young Black girls as focal points in their work.

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Photo of Hannah Silverman Hannah Silverman

Hannah Silverman is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Product Liability, Trial Strategies and White Collar Defense & Investigations Groups. Hannah’s practice focuses on a broad range of matters, including product liability defense, white collar defense, internal investigations…

Hannah Silverman is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Product Liability, Trial Strategies and White Collar Defense & Investigations Groups. Hannah’s practice focuses on a broad range of matters, including product liability defense, white collar defense, internal investigations, and contract disputes. She has represented institutional and individual clients in all phases of civil and criminal litigation, including discovery, trial, and at criminal sentencing. Most recently, Hannah served as a trial team member representing Monsanto in a high-profile product liability suit. After a five-month trial, the California jury returned a complete defense verdict.

Hannah earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law.  During law school, Hannah served as an articles and notes editor of the Fordham Law Review and as an associate editor of the Dispute Resolution Society.  She is the author of “The Role of ‘Coordinating Discovery Attorneys’ in Multidefendant Federal Criminal Cases,” 88 Fordham L. Rev. 1173 (2019), which received the Mary Daly Graduation Prize in Legal Ethics.  Hannah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University.

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