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When we think about copyright infringement, most of the time we default to thinking about “Person A suing Person B” for infringing their copyrighted materials. That’s a civil lawsuit. But copyright law also carries some sharp penalties in the criminal realm too– think “the State vs. Person B.” The federal government can prosecute criminal copyright […]
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The Supreme Court is clear: you should register copyrights before you have a problem. On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that copyright owners must before filing a lawsuit for copyright infringement. This resolved a conflict– a “circuit split”– between courts that disagreed on whether (i) copyright owners must simply apply for copyright registration […]
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