US Senator Thom Tillis’s proposed Digital Copyright Act of 2021, which amends key provisions for addressing online copyright infringement in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, was pushed to 2022. The decade-long dispute between Google LLC and Oracle America, Inc.
The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2020, which includes revisions to the Copyright Act with the goal of creating a new venue for copyright owners to enforce their rights without having to file an action in federal court.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Following up on our initial report last year on the possible creation of a Copyright Claims Board, we can now confirm the creation of that Board. The Consolidated Appropriations Act signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020 incorporates the CASE Act, establishes this new Copyright Claims Board (CCB) within the Copyright Office. A summary of this new law and the Board’s operations are explained below.
Purpose: In creating the CCB, Congress carried out a long-pending recommendation from the Copyright Office that copyright owners be given a streamlined, cost-efficient means of enforcing their rights without having to bring an action in federal court (which otherwise generally has exclusive jurisdiction over the copyright infringement claims).