On May 30, 2025, Eight Mile Style, the co-publisher of hundreds of songs by American rapper Eminem, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Michigan against Meta Platforms—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The lawsuit accuses Meta of willfully and extensively infringing Eight Mile’s copyrights by making 243 Eminem songs available in its music library without authorization.

This Wednesday, online forum Reddit filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of breaching contractual terms, circumventing technical barriers, and scraping user-generated content.

On May 30, 2025, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) terminated its investigation into Motorola following a confidential settlement agreement reached between Ericsson and Motorola.

On May 27, 2025, UPC’s Mannheim Local Division issued its first anti-anti-suit injunction (AASI) against Disney.

On May 28, 2025, Japan’s House of Councillors passed the country’s first law specifically addressing artificial intelligence—the Act on the Promotion of Research, Development, and Utilization of Artificial Intelligence-related Technologies—with a majority vote during a plenary session.

Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has taken up its first-ever copyright case involving artificial intelligence. The case originates from Hungary and is titled Like Company v. Google Ireland Ltd, Case No. C-250/25.

On May 22, 2025, in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, a federal judge in the District Court for the Northern District of California, William Alsup, was inclined to find that Anthropic had infringed copyright law in making the initial copies of the pirated book, but that its subsequent use in training its generative AI models was fair use (Case No. 24-cv-05417).

On May 20, 2025, IPOS launched new Patents and Trademarks Acceleration Programs to help filers receive faster office actions.

Global television manufacturer TCL recently joined the ATSC 3.0 patent pool managed by Via Licensing as a licensor by acquiring essential patents related to the ATSC 3.0 standard held by the US company RTEM.