The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s decision to deny attorney fees to the defendants after defeating copyright claims lodged against them, finding such a conclusion strayed from law and that they were entitled to entitled to such fees.

The Aug. 11 opinion, authored by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Kirsch for the Seventh Circuit, reversed a district court’s fee award denial, concluding its reasoning that the award wouldn’t advance the purposes of the Copyright Act’s symmetrical fee-shifting provision strayed for the circuit’s law.

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