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Foreign-works exemption keeps US copyright claim alive, judge recommends

By Nick Robertson ( April 24, 2025, 22:25 GMT | Insight) -- A Texas magistrate judge recommended that Maxxim Industries’ newly-added copyright claim against Texas Chrome Transport survive a motion to dismiss because TCT had reasonable access to Maxxim’s trailer and the designs are substantially similar. As Maxxim brought the claim on behalf of its Mexican subsidiary, its drawings do not have to be registered with the US Copyright Office, the judge said.Maxxim Industries’ copyright infringement claims against Texas Chrome Transport over trailer technical drawings should survive a motion to dismiss, a Western District of Texas magistrate judge recommended this week, finding substantial similarity between the drawings and TCT’s trailers and reasonable access to the copyrighted works....

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