Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: 11 Venturing into this debate in which the courts of appeals have mainiy emphasis, and not 1T outcome petitioner now proffers wholly unprecedented alternative. In this view bv enacting Section 505 without any specific further discussion of its intention. Congress was making deliberate choice the are7 of copyrights the British Rule lieu of American Rule. Accordingly petitioner Tea i5ons "the general rule should be to award fees the prevailing party whether 11 the plaintiff defendant. ahseni excentional circumstances Ibia The majority rule is The statutory language (as constried by this Court in related contexts) the purposes and policies of the Copyright Act, and the legislative history Section 505 confirn that prevailing defendants should awarded attorney fees under Section 505 only the pl ...