The Supreme Court Holds That North Carolina Can’t Be Sued for Its Infringing Activities, but the Copyright Holder May Still Have a Remedy

The Supreme Court unanimously held this week that sovereign immunity insulates a state from suit for copyright infringement. Allen et al. v Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al., 589 U.S. ___(2020). The state in the Supreme Court case was North Carolina. In 2011 Lutzker & Lutzker fought a similar battle in federal district court […]

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The Pandemic: Copyright’s Role in the Switch to Distance Education and Online Learning at Home

Copyright might seem unrelated to the pandemic, but the suddenly critical role of online education especially for young students raises important new issues and opportunities in that area. As schools are closing around the country, some perhaps for the rest of the year, our heroic teachers are scrambling to make sure that the education of […]

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