The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s choice to reject lawyer charges to the offenders after beating copyright declares lodged versus them, discovering such a conclusion wandered off from law which they were entitled to entitled to such charges.
The Aug. 11 viewpoint, authored by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Kirsch for the Seventh Circuit, reversed a district court’s cost award rejection, concluding its thinking that the award would not advance the functions of the Copyright Act’s balanced fee-shifting arrangement wandered off for the circuit’s law.