United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of two copyright infringement suits is:1) affirmed in part, where agreements assigning plaintiff the bare right to sue for infringement of newspaper articles, without the transfer of any associated exclusive rights in the articles, did not confer standing to sue; and 2) vacated in part, as to the portion of the district court's order granting summary judgment on fair use in one of the suits, because given plaintiff's lack of standing, the district court lacked jurisdiction to rule in the alternative on the fair use defense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2013
• Published 05/09/2013

Judges

• CLIFTON

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel