Fourth Estate Public Benefit v. Wall-Street.com, LLC

Docket Number: 16-13726
Judge: William Holcombe Pryor, Jr.
Opinion Date: May 18, 2017

Registration of a copyright has not been made in accordance with 17 U.S.C. 411(a), until the Register of Copyrights registers the claim. Filing an application does not amount to registration. Fourth Estate filed suit against defendants, alleging that Fourth Estate had filed an application to register its allegedly infringed copyrights, but that the Copyright Office had not registered its claims. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the action where Fourth Estate has not alleged infringement of any registered work, and this appeal did not involve the ongoing creation of original works, or potential future infringement of works not yet created. View “Fourth Estate Public Benefit v. Wall-Street.com, LLC” on Justia Law

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