In practice no US lawyer will touch a case unless copyright registration has been done in the USA.
Not because they don't think they can win, but they can't easily collect as much in damages if the image wasn't registered. I may be mistaken but I seem to recall that specifically you can't recover court costs if the image wasn't registered. In other words its going to be harder for the lawyer to go through a very expensive trial process and still recover enough to even cover his fees. If I was a lawyer I wouldn't be falling all over myself to take on that type of work either. The culprit here is how insanely expensive it is to litigate even a very simple cut and dry copyright violation. Without registration its even more complex to prove your case and the potential settlement is less.
Bob Smith
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