Last week the Copyright Claims Board issued its very first judgment. It came in a case about an attorney who reused a photograph on his website without permission. It's a relatively straightfoward case, but perhaps with a few early lessons about how the CCB will operate.
Read our post about it here: https://authorsalliance.substack.com/p/the-first-copyright-small-claims
The First Copyright Small Claims Court Judgment
Authors Alliance members will recall the posts we’ve made over the years about the enactment and implementation of a new copyright small claims court, the “Copyright Claims Board,” housed within the U.S. Copyright Office. Late last week, the CCB issued its very first judgment. It came in a case brought by photographer David Oppenheimer against an California attorney, David Prutton, who had used an unlicensed copy of one of Oppenheimer’s photos (a picture of the federal courthouse in Oakland) on his solo-practitioner website (
