Perspective
May 29, 2010
Ninth Circuit Widens Split on Copyright Registration Issue
The 9th Circuit has finally ruled on what is needed to file suit for copyright infringement, say Mark Lee and Benjamin Shat of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally has chosen sides in a slowly developing dispute over a technical but important issue - namely, whether a copyright application or completed registration is needed to file suit for copyright infringement. In Cosmetic Ideas Inc. v. IAC/InteractiveCorp, 2010 DJDAR 7635 (9th Cir. May 25, 2010), it ruled that filing a copyright application alone was enough to give a plain...
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