Legal Opinion
Eagle Services Corp. v. H2O Industrial Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 9, 2008No. 07-1997PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Copyright Act authorizes a court to award a reasonable attorney’s fee to the prevailing party in a copyright suit. 17 U.S.C. § 505. The defendants prevailed but the district court refused to award them attorney’s fees, and they have appealed.
The plaintiff, Eagle, is in the business of cleaning up contaminated sites. The four individual defendants left their employment with Eagle to form their own company (the corporate defendant, H20) to compete with Eagle.
Eagle has a copyrighted safety manual. The copyright is a compilation copyright, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Darrell Taylor, D/B/A Darrell Taylor Topographic Charts v. Joseph B. Meirick, D/B/A Lakes IllustratedCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
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