Burr v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “legal ownership of a copyright in a work initially vests in the author of the woi’k,” and the author retains the exclusive rights unless and until such rights are transferred
• finding that plaintiff was the legal and beneficial owner of the allegedly infringed copyright interests in PAMI
• noting that the term “copyright owner” has not “been the subject of a dispositive analysis by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit”
• “Copyright infringement suits against the United States are governed by 28 U.S.C. § 1498(b).”

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