1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i The CASE Act of 2019: Establishing a Small-Claims Process for Copyright Disputes November 27, 2019 On October 22, 2019, the House passed H.R. 2426, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (C
2、ASE) Act of 2019 by a vote of 410-6. Several Members have introduced an identical bill (S. 1273) in the Senate, which the Senate Judiciary Committee reported favorably on September 12, 2019. The CASE Act seeks to help copyright holders enforce lower-value claims by establishing a Copyright Claims Bo
3、ard to resolve copyright disputes with damages totaling less than $30,000. This Sidebar reviews the enforcement issues that the CASE Act seeks to address, describes the provisions of the CASE Act, and analyzes the legal concerns that some scholars and stakeholders have raised about the legislation.
4、Challenges to Enforcing Lower-Value Copyright Claims Copyright law grants creators of original works of authorship (e.g., books, movies, photographs, computer code, and visual art) a set of exclusive rights in their works, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the work, or
