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On January 8th, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments
in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v.
Wall-Street.com [Case No. 17-571 (Jan. 8, 2019)] to
settle a longstanding circuit split on the copyright registration
prerequisite to a copyright infringement suit. In this article,
Finnegan attorneys Margaret Esquenet and Jonathan Uffelman discuss
the case.
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