Copyright claims and past statements

1. Whether a federal court may apply judicial estoppel to bar a copyright plaintiffs ownership or standing position based on an alleged “ prior position ” where the litigant preserved sworn record evidence that the statement was not his, was not executed by him, and was materially disputed as to authenticity, provenance, execution, and attribution. 2. Whether judicial estoppel may be applied without evaluating, on the preserved record, whether the alleged prior position was actually attributable to the litigant, whether a court accepted that position, and whether the litigant obtained or would obtain an unfair advantage. 3. Whether preserved record evidence of U.S.-based copying, reproduction, use, distribution, reformatting, platform activity, or distribution-chain conduct can create a triable issue of domestic copyright infringement where some downstream exploitation also occurred abroad.