id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
inlawrev-4097	Landrigan, Thomas M.	Application or Registration?: Confusion Regarding the Copyright Act's Prerequisite to Copyright Infringement Lawsuits	2011	23	.pdf	application/pdf	10940	675	58	They read this provision to mean that the effective date is effective immediately, not retroactively after the Copyright Office makes a decision.^^ The court in Foraste v. Brown University mentioned that registration approach courts interpret section 410(d) to mean that registration is consummated only after an application is examined, considered, and accepted by the Copyright Office, and is then 'backdated' to the time the application is received but that [the registration approach interpretation] ignores the statute's mandate that the merits of the application materials are 'later determined,' that is, determined at some the filing of an infringement action.). [Because the Copyright Act] allows a party to sue for infringement not only after approval ofa copyright registration application, but also after a refusal of that registration application . . .	cache/inlawrev-4097.pdf	txt/inlawrev-4097.txt