Copyright Litigation Blog

On September 29, 2020, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant certiorari in Steinbeck v. Kaffaga, a case involving the rights of authors and their heirs to terminate copyright grants.  Copyright terminations have generated...

On April 29, 2020, we filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of The Authors Guild, The Dramatists Guild, The American Society of Journalists and Authors, and former Register of Copyrights Ralph Oman at the United States Supreme Court.  The case involves...

Dear Copyright Litigation Handbook Reader:
The first edition of Copyright Litigation Handbook was published in 2006 by West, now Thomson Reuters.  It is available in a handy desk version with the Copyright Act, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence as appendices...

The Ninth Circuit made it a lot tougher for copyright owners to sue internet protocol address subscribers for copyright infringements where the infringements were made by third parties using the subscriber's internet accounts.   Here, the defendant subscriber...