  The Landau background gauge, also known as the Landau-DeWitt gauge, has found
renewed interest during the past decade given its usefulness in accessing the
confinement-deconfinement transition via the vacuum expectation value of the
Polyakov loop, describable via an appropriate background. In this Letter, we
revisit this gauge from the viewpoint of it displaying gauge (Gribov) copies.
We generalize the Gribov-Zwanziger effective action in a BRST and background
invariant way; this action leads to a restriction on the allowed gauge
fluctuations, thereby eliminating the infinitesimal background gauge copies.
The explicit background invariance of our action is in contrast with earlier
attempts to write down and use an effective Gribov-Zwanziger action. It allows
to address certain subtleties arising in these earlier works, such as a
spontaneous and thus spurious Lorentz symmetry breaking, something which is now
averted.
