COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Also Includes Little-known Provision Creating New Streamlined Tribunal For Copyright Infringement Claims
By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/21
Nearly unnoticed in the wrangling over the amount of COVID relief payments, the stimulus bill signed into law on December 27, 2020 also included several interesting intellectual property provisions. Buried thousands of pages into the bill, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (the “CASE Act”) establishes a small claims court-type system under the U.S. Copyright Office for copyright holders to pursue low-value claims of copyright violations......
By: Weintraub Tobin