Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on April 14, 2008
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2008 3(6):359-360; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpn061
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Class action copyright infringement suits limited to owners of registered copyrights
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington DC
Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation, in re, 509 F.3d 116 (2d Cir.,) 29 November 2007
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the ruling of the district court, finding that the district court did not have subject matter jurisdiction to certify a plaintiff class in a class action copyright infringement suit where the vast majority of class claims arose from the infringement of unregistered copyrights.
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