Photographer Asks Supreme Court To Review Copyright Infringement Pleading Standard

Mealey's (April 17, 2020, 7:14 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 26 reply brief supporting his petition for certiorari, a photographer tells the U.S. Supreme Court that in ruling for a publisher with which he has a licensing dispute, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals improperly “graft[ed] additional elements onto the two-prong” copyright infringement pleading standard previously articulated by the high court (Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc., No. 19-894, U.S. Sup.)....