Intellectual Property Magazine
Are states immune from copyright infringement?
Blackbeard’s sunken ship is at the centre of a Supreme Court battle over whether a US state is immune from copyright infringement lawsuits
Ben Wodecki
Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) judges heard arguments inearly November, a case concerning whether states are protected from
claims of
copyright infringement by state sovereign immunity under the US Constitution’s
the Eleventh Amendment.