Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property,
Government
Mar. 5, 2018
Paved with good intentions: a flawed copyright small claims court
For too many copyright stakeholders, litigation in federal courts is prohibitively expensive; especially in relation to the modest amounts at stake in many online copyright infringements.
Ben Depoorter
Professor
UC Hastings College of the Law
Email: depoorter@uchastings.edu
Ben is Sunderland chair and professor of law at UC Hastings College of the Law and affiliate scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. You can reach him at depoorter@uchastings.edu.
Calls to establish a "small claims" copyright court have surfaced periodically over the past few decades. At this point in time, a legislative initiative to create a small claims tribunal within the U.S. Copyright Office is gaining momentum on the Hill.
The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2017 proposes to implement a report by the U.S. Copyright Office to set-up a "Copyright Claims Board." This board,...
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