Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: In fact. the pre-1976 Act studies lend more support tc an evenhanded than dual standard for awards attorney's fees to plaintiffs and defendants one comnentator has stated "Quoting the 1917 edition of Weil on Copyright, the most directly relevant study simply that attorney' fees may be tecoy. erable because expense of any litigation con siderable [so thatj it tou pay party rights, even ir valid, situation opposed to justice Therefore, [i]t increasingly recog nized that the person who forces another te engage coursel either vindicate or defend right should bear the expense such engage- ent and not his successful opponent Nota ably, perhaps, this passage treats the attorney fee provision as J0 equal potential applicability But the prosccution or defense of copyright suit may entail good deal ...