Lawyer help

When the Board isn’t enough.

Answer five questions. If your case needs a lawyer, Registry shows where to find free and paid help and prints a one-page case summary to bring. Registry takes no referral fee from anyone.

Your situation

Which side are you on?

My work was used I received a CCB claim

Anything below true? Tick all that apply.

They opted out of the Board I’m owed more than $30,000 They’re outside the U.S. A big company with lawyers It’s a contract or payment dispute I won but haven’t been paid

One paragraph for the lawyer (optional)

Open a Claim Kit case file

Free and low-cost help

CCB pro bono list: law school clinics and pro bono groups that have told the Board they will help participants, several nationwide.
Law students may represent parties at the Board for free under attorney supervision (17 U.S.C. §1506(d)).
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the arts-lawyer groups on the CCB list offer referrals and consultations.
Your state bar’s lawyer referral service for a paid copyright lawyer near you.

What a lawyer adds

In federal court, works registered on time can earn statutory damages up to $150,000 per work for willful infringement and an award of attorney’s fees (17 U.S.C. §§504(c), 505, 412). Many copyright lawyers take strong cases on contingency; that is their call, made with you.