Category: Copyright Infringement

Malibu Media attorney Paul Nicoletti has filed another mass doe copyright infringement lawsuit in the Western District of Michigan. Countryman Nevada, LLC v. Does 1-30, Case No. 1:14-cv-00073 alleges that Does 1-30 infringed upon the copyright of the film “Charlie Countryman” through the bittorrent protocol. You can view the Complaint here. If you have been […]

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that copyright protection does not extend to the shape of a hookah water container. Specifically, two California hookah makers recently found themselves in federal court when Inhale, Inc. believed that the shape of Starbuzz Tobacco, Inc.’s hookah infringed upon its hookah design. This case is a test […]

Automattic, Inc., a web development corporation that parents the free blogging tool, WordPress, has filed two separate lawsuits concerning egregious cases of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) takedown notices. In filing these two suits, Automattic has paired up with the individuals who run the site RetractionWatch.com (“Retraction”) for one of the lawsuits, and student journalist […]

Irving, Texas enterprise software firm Apptricity Corp. has settled its copyright infringement lawsuit against the US Army for $50 million and has kept its position as a vendor for the government. Apptricity provides the US Army with enterprise-level software to help the Army keep track of personnel and equipment. Initially, Apptricity licensed the software to […]

Recently, Apple forced Digital Music News (“DMN”), a website that covers news and information for the music industry, to pull an iTunes Radio contract from their website, citing copyright infringement as the reason for removal. The contract, leaked by DMN in late June, was for independent, non-major record labels that didn’t have directly negotiated deals […]

A U.S. District Judge denied ABC television (“ABC”) the ability to prevent satellite-TV provider, Dish Network Corp. (“Dish”), from continuing to provide its commercial-skipping recording feature as a service through a request for a copyright infringement preliminary injunction. The controversial feature, dubbed AutoHop, allows consumers to skip ads during broadcast shows. Additionally, Dish consumers can […]

A Chicago copyright infringement case was recently dismissed in the Northern District of Illinois where the Plaintiff failed to establish that its poems were original for the purposes of copyright protection.   Background:   The court granted Defendant Techny Advisors, LLC (“Defendant”) motion to dismiss Plaintiff Personal Keepsakes, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) claims of copyright infringement and […]

On September 18, record label companies including Capitol Records, Virgin Records America, and others prevailed in a lawsuit against the video-sharing website, Vimeo in a copyright infringement action. Specifically, the record companies alleged that the user-generated content (“UGC”) uploaded to Vimeo was of copyrighted and protected content belonging to music moguls such as The Beatles, […]

Malibu Media has again, on September 16 and 17, filed 8 new copyright infringement lawsuits within the Eastern District of Michigan through local counsel Paul J. Nicoletti. The case numbers are: 2:13-cv-13958 – IP address 68.40.198.191 2:13-cv-13955 – IP address 66.227.253.129 5:13-cv-13974 – IP address 68.41.69.110 2:13-cv-13979 – IP address 68.43.144.78 4:13-cv-13983 – IP address 68.43.61.118 2:13-cv-13987 – IP address 71.238.130.1 […]

In the interconnected series of tubes that is the internet, it’s common for blog posts and other commentary to embed or link to Youtube videos. And many times, live presenters will choose to include a relevant clip to supplement their speech. But what are the limits of using content someone else created for your own […]