p>Vacating the district court's order denying a
defendant's recovery of attorneys' fees under the Copyright
Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that, even
when asserted as a claim for declaratory relief, any action that
turns on the existence and potential infringement of a valid
copyright invokes the Copyright Act and therefore gives the
district court discretion to award reasonable attorneys' fees
pursuant to § 505 of the Copyright Act. Doc's Dream,
LLC v. Dolores Press, Inc. and Melissa Scott, Case No.
18-56073 (9th Cir. May 6, 2020) (Callahan, J.).
In a long-running and multi-action dispute between Doc's
Dream and Dolores Press over the ownership rights and usage of
video-recorded sermons created by the late religious leader Dr.
Eugene Scott, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court grant of
summary judgment in favor of Dolores in response to Doc's
Dream's petition for a declaratory judgment on grounds that Dr.
Scott abandoned his
