Holding States Accountable for Copyright Piracy

States continue to benefit from copyright protections, but they avoid accountability for their own copyright infringement. As made clear by the legal briefs submitted in the case before the Supreme Court, as well as by comments recently submitted in response to the ongoing Copyright Office sovereign immunity study, the problem of states routinely ignoring the property rights protected by federal law is widespread and significant.  READ WHITE PAPER

 

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