National Leased Housing Ass'n v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• expressing no opinion on copyright holder’s argument that an act of domestic infringement — reproducing the film — made damages for foreign infringement appropriate
• warning of the disruption to American foreign policy interests and to the policy of domestic enforcement expressed in the Berne Convention that extraterritorial enforcement would cause
• warning of the disruption to American foreign policy interests and to the policy of domestic enforcement expressed in the Berne Convention that extraterritorial enforcement would cause
• reasoning “that a plaintiff’s “assertion that [a] series of discrete acts flows from a company-wide, or systematic, discriminatory practice will not succeed in 25 establishing the employer’s liability for acts occurring outside the limitations period.”
• “[T]he addition of the words ‘to authorize’ in the 1976 Act appears best understood as merely clarifying that the Act contemplates liability for contributory infringement....”
• “we reaffirm that the United States copyright laws do not reach acts of infringement that take place entirely abroad”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).