Newspaper Asks High Court To Decide Burden Of Proving Copyright Infringement Claim

(December 2, 2016, 1:28 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A newspaper organization in a Nov. 7 petition for writ of certiorari asks the U.S. Supreme Court to answer whether a plaintiff or a defendant has the burden of proving or disproving claims of copyright infringement over the distribution of a portrait of the Nation of Islam’s leader, Louis Farrakhan (The Final Call Inc. v. Jesus Muhammad Ali, No. 16-647, U.S. Sup.)....