West Coast Productions v. Does 1 – 5,829, — F.Supp.2d —, 2011 WL 2292239 (D.D.C. June 10, 2011) The judge in one of the well-known mass copyright cases filed by Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver a/k/a U.S. Copyright Group (West Coast Productions v. Does 1 – 5,829) has issued an order denying motions to quash filed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘anonymous’
Court deals blow to anonymous Bittorrent defendants’ efforts to challenge subpoenas
June 14th, 2011
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Court protects identity of anonymous email sender
May 21st, 2011
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Sandals Resorts Intern. Ltd. v. Google, Inc., — N.Y.S.2d —, 2011 WL 1885939, (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept., May 19, 2011) Some unknown person sent an email to a number of undisclosed recipients containing information that was critical of the hiring and other business practices of the Caribbean resort Sandals. Irritated by this communication, Sandals filed an [...]
Texas supreme court says identities of anonymous bloggers should not be disclosed
April 16th, 2011
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In re Does, — S.W.3d —, 2011 WL 1447544 (Texas, April 15, 2011) The issue of anonymity is a hot topic in internet law. The question of whether an internet user known only by an IP address or username or website name should be identified arises fairly often in the early stages of internet defamation [...]
Federal court applies Seescandy.com test to unmask anonymous defendants in copyright and privacy case
February 3rd, 2011
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Liberty Media Holdings, LLC. v. Does 1-59, 2011 WL 292128 (S.D. Cal., January 25, 2011) Plaintiff porn company sued 59 anonymous defendants it knew only by IP address for violation of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and for copyright infringement. Since plaintiff did not know who the defendants [...]
Another massive porn Bittorrent copyright lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois
December 4th, 2010
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MCGIP, LLC v. Does 1-1,164, No. 10-7675 (N.D.Ill., filed December 2, 2010) [Download Complaint] Filing of copyright infringement complaint will be precursor to more subpoenas seeking to identify unknown file-sharing defendants. Another porn company has filed a copyright lawsuit against hundreds of anonymous John Doe defendants who allegedly used the Bittorrent protocol to trade plaintiffs’ [...]
California’s anti-SLAPP statute not applied to request for subpoena
June 12th, 2008
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Request for subpoena to unmask anonymous defendants in prospective Internet defamation case did not set forth “cause of action” or initiate judicial proceedings. Tendler v. www.jewishsurvivors.blogspot.com, No. H031130, 2008 WL 2352497 (Cal.App. 6th Dist. June 10, 2008) Some people (anonymously) set up several blogs on Google’s Blogger, and posted some nasty things about Rabbi Tendler. [...]
Anonymous alleged infringer identified with little substantive inquiry into infringement claim
January 22nd, 2008
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[In re Subpoena Issued Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyrigt Act to: 43SB.com, No. 07- 6236, 2007 WL 4335441 (D. Idaho, December 7, 2007).] When the general counsel for Melaleuca, Inc. saw some negative content someone had posted about the company on the Web site 43rdstateblues.com, he sent a cease and desist letter demanding the [...]
