Recent copyright reform efforts include legislation in the Congress that would create a copyright claims board to help individual creators and small businesses enforce their copyrights without the expense and complexity of federal court litigation. This article reviews similar tribunals in other countries and examines the proposed board to determine whether it would be effective, both for small claims plaintiffs and in advancing the goals of copyright overall. Test cases involving different types of plaintiffs and defendants are used in order to determine whether the proposed board would in practice level the playing field for individual creators in copyright infringement suits.

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版权主张委员会和个人创建者：是否可以进行真正的改革？

最近的版权改革努力包括国会中的立法，该立法将建立版权主张委员会，以帮助个人创作者和小型企业在不增加联邦法院诉讼费用和复杂性的情况下，执行其版权。本文回顾了其他国家/地区的类似法庭，并研究了提议的董事会，以确定它对于小额索赔原告和总体上促进版权目标是否有效。使用涉及不同类型的原告和被告的测试案例，以确定拟议的董事会在实践中是否会为版权侵权诉讼中的单个创作者创造公平的竞争环境。