United States Second Circuit

A court may not assess attorney's fees against a publisher for providing insufficient copyright notice on government works under Section 403 of the Copyright Act, 17 USC 403.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/08/2000
• Decided 01/23/2001
• Published 01/23/2001

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before: STRAUB and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and SPATT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles D. Ossola, Arnold & Porter (Carol Lally, on the brief, Keith Kupferschmid, of counsel), Washington, DC, submitted a brief for Amicus Curiae Software & Information Industry Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carl J. Hartmann, III, New York, N.Y. (Paul J. Ruskin, Douglaston, NY, on the brief, Alan D. Sugarman, New York, NY, of counsel), for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant., James F. Rittinger, Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke (Joshua M. Rubins, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.