Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Julian Martin, Inc.

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• concluding that statutory rule requiring copyright holders to register works before suing was not jurisdictional
• holding that the Copyright Act’s registration requirement, 17 U.S.C. § 411(a), is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit under the Act
• holding that the registration requirement in 17 U.S.C. § 411(a) of the Copyright Act “imposes a precondition to filing a claim” and “does not restrict a federal court’s subject-matter jurisdiction”
• holding that 17 U.S.C. § 411(a), which “imposes a precondition to filing a claim,” “does not restrict a federal court’s subject-matter jurisdiction.”
• holding that a copyright holder's failure to comply with § 411(a)'s registration requirement does not restrict a federal court's subject-matter jurisdiction over copyright infringement claims involving unregistered works
• concluding that “[t]he word ‘jurisdiction’ . . . says nothing about whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate claims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).