Legal Opinion
Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1994No. 92-1750PublishedCited by 1,744 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
The Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U. S. C. § 505, provides in relevant part that in any copyright infringement action “the court may . .. award a reasonable attorney’s fee to the prevailing party as part of the costs.”1 The question presented in this case is what standards should inform a court’s decision to award attorney’s fees to a prevailing defendant in a copyright infringement action — a question that has produced conflicting views in the Courts of Appeals.
Petitioner John Fogerty is a successful musician, who, in the late 1960’s, was the. lead singer and songwriter of a popular music group…
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