Copyright Act - Statutory Damages - Constitutional Law - Seventh Amendment - Equitable/Legal Remedies

Authors

P. Gavin Eastgate

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court held that where statutory remedies are more analogous to those historically awarded in courts of law rather than courts of equity, the Seventh Amendment, and not the provisions of the Copyright Act, provides for the right to a jury trial.

Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc., 118 S. Ct. 1279 (1998).

First Page

127

Recommended Citation

P. G. Eastgate, Copyright Act - Statutory Damages - Constitutional Law - Seventh Amendment - Equitable/Legal Remedies, 37 Duq. L. Rev. 127 (1998).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol37/iss1/7