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U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property

Mar. 7, 2022

Ruling expands policy of leniency for copyright registration errors

In a ruling at the end of Febraury, the U.S. Supreme Court took another step down the road of relaxing the formalities claimants must observe to enforce copyrights.

Samuel Brooks

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Call & Jensen, APC

Email: sbrooks@calljensen.com

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In Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., 2022 DJDAR 1821 (Feb. 24, 2022), the U.S. Supreme Court took another step down the road of relaxing the formalities claimants must observe to enforce copyrights. After this decision, copyright owners can rely on a copyright registration obtained with substantially inaccurate information so lo...

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