Intellectual Property
Nov. 16, 2022
CCB for you and for me? Maybe.
The Copyright Claims Board, which resides within the Library of Congress, is now available to hear your infringement action, so long as you don’t expect more than $30,000 in damages.
John R. Wierzbicki
I.P. lawyer
Law Offices of John R. Wierzbicki
Wierzbicki is the vice-chair of the Copyright Interest Group of the I.P. Section of the California Lawyers Association.
Copyright infringement actions are simply too expensive and cumbersome to be left solely to the federal courts. Instead, creators and other rights holders need a new forum designed to adjudicate their smaller claims. At least, that was the thinking behind the passage of the "Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020" (17 U.S.C §1501 et seq.), which created the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), launched in June of this year. The CCB, which resides withi...
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