Month: December 2025

While there isn’t a single “MIDI case” that stands out the way White-Smith v. Apollo did for piano rolls, the U.S. copyright doctrine has evolved through software and digital music cases to treat MIDI files as protectable embodiments of musical works. Courts and commentators consistently apply 17 U.S.C. §102 (original works fixed in a tangible medium) to MIDI, and case law around software object code and digital sampling provides the backbone for this analysis. ⚖️ Continue reading Copyright Protection of MIDI Files→

UK Landmark Decision: No Infringement Without Embodiment In a groundbreaking ruling, the UK High Court delivered its first major judgment on generative AI and copyright in Getty Images (US) Inc & ors v Stability AI Limited ([2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch)) [6]. The court held that Stability AI did not infringe Getty Images’ copyright through its training of the Stable Diffusion model, because the resulting model weights, while derived from copyrighted images, do not contain or Continue reading AI Copyright Showdown: UK Ruling Contrasts with US Legal Battles→