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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