Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: advance public welfare through the talerts of authors and inventors "Science and useful Arts 119 Thus, while copyright holders receive valuable, enforceable rights orly they may sue on "the grant T made furtherance govermmental policy of the United States and the benefits the copyright "are deemed accrue the public in the execution 0 that policy Film Corp Doyal, 286 U.S 123 128 {1932} The Ninth Circuit' coostniction of Section 505 is faithful to these underlying purposes. Copyright claims like civil rights claims are inherently uncertain [No matter how meritorious one claim may appear the outset the course of litigation is rarely predictable. Christiansburg Garment 434 :1 422 assess counsel fees against copyright plaintiffs "simply because do rot finally prevail' the Court noted in Christi ...