(United States Supreme Court) - Held that a copyright claimant may not commence an infringement suit until the Copyright Office registers the copyright. The plaintiff,a news organization that sued a news website for infringement, argued that the relevant date should be when the Copyright Office receives a completed application for registration, or even whether the Register of Copyrights has not yet acted on that application. The U.
S. Supreme Court disagreed,in a unanimous opinion delivered by Justice Ginsburg.
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