SCOTUS H&M ruling could ‘encourage or curtail’ copyright trolls

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SCOTUS H&M ruling could ‘encourage or curtail’ copyright trolls

Patrick Wingrove
June 14 2021
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Depending on how the US Supreme Court rules in Unicolors v H&M, copyright defendants could have a harder time fending off serial filers, say counsel

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