FOURTH ESTATE PUBLIC BENEFIT v. WALL-STREET.COM

No. 16-13726.

856 F.3d 1338 (2017)

FOURTH ESTATE PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WALL-STREET.COM, LLC, Jerrold D. Burben, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 18, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel B. Rothman , Jerold I. Schneider , Schneider Rothman Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC, BOCA RATON, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David Andrew Geller , The Geller Law Group, PA, HOLLYWOOD, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN, and BOGGS, Circuit Judges.


"Registration" of a copyright is a precondition to filing suit for copyright infringement. 17 U.S.C. § 411(a). This appeal requires us to decide an issue that has divided the circuits: whether registration occurs when an owner files an application to register the copyright...

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