( November 18, 2025, 9:48 AM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — While a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel agreed that a Virginia federal court, and not one in California, was the proper venue to consider copyright claims involving stock images of vehicles due to a forum selection clause in a contract, the panel also affirmed a Virginia federal judge’s decision to decline to exercise jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action brought by a software company named as a defendant in an infringement suit filed in the California federal court....