Mealey's (January 10, 2020, 11:35 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 9 that the statutory bar for pre-registration damages set forth in Section 412 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 412, extends to post-registration copying when the copying differs from a defendant’s pre-registration copying (Southern Credentialing Support Services v. Hammond Surgical Hospital, No. 18-31160, 5th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 624)....