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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

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At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. The picture at issue was taken in 2017, and was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office on July 29, 2017. Prutton claims that Oppenheimer was unreasonable in settlement negotiations.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

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Before the 1909 Act, the author was required to register the title of the work before publication, as a condition of receiving copyright protection. Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice. Gordy , 877 F.3d 3d 1024, 1029-30 (11th Cir.