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Eleventh Circuit: No DJ jurisdiction in copyright case when copyright unregistered

By McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.

In a recent decision, the Eleventh Circuit vacated a district court's grant of summary judgment in a copyright infringement declaratory judgment action.  The court determined that the district court was without subject matter jurisdiction to entertain the alleged infringer's declaratory judgment action.  This was because the district court would have lacked jurisdiction to hear the "reverse" claim, namely the copyright owner's claim for copyright infringement, be read more

Full post as published by FileWrapper on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).