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 ‘subpoena’
Court deals blow to anonymous Bittorrent defendants’ efforts to challenge subpoenas
June 14th, 2011
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District judge stays magistrate’s order requiring identification of anonymous defendants
June 12th, 2011
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This is a post by Jonathan Rogers. Jon is a licensed attorney in California, with a focus on technology and entertainment law. You can reach him by email at jon@jonarogers.com or follow him on Twitter at @jonarogers. Faconnable USA Corp. v. Doe, Slip Copy, 2011 WL 2173736 (D.Colo., Jun 2, 2011) Faconnable issued a subpoena duces tecum [...]
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 [...]
Court leaves thousands of BitTorrent copyright infringement defendants joined in single action
March 28th, 2011
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Call of the Wild Movie v. Does 1 – 1,062 — F.Supp.2d —, 2011 WL 996786 (D.D.C. March 22, 2011) One of the craziest things about the copyright infringement lawsuits that have been brought against BitTorrent users accused of trading movies over the internet is the vast number of John Doe defendants that are usually [...]
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’ [...]
Stored Communications Act protects Yahoo email account from subpoena
October 20th, 2010
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Chasten v. Franklin, 2010 WL 4065606 (N.D.Cal. October 14, 2010) Plaintiff sued some corrections officers at the prison where her inmate son was killed. She learned in a deposition that one of the defendants had a Yahoo email account. So she sent a subpoena to Yahoo seeking all the email messages sent from that account [...]
Court scales back Zynga’s attempts to learn about anonymous Mafia Wars infringers
June 2nd, 2010
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Zynga Game Network Inc. v. Williams, 2010 WL 2077191 (N.D.Cal. May 20, 2010) Zynga (you know, the creator of Farmville and Mafia Wars) has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of websites that sell virtual currency and goods for use in Mafia Wars. These websites allegedly give rise to infringement of the Mafia Wars [...]
Anonymous sender of beer pong email gets to remain unknown
March 19th, 2010
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A.Z. v. Doe, 2010 WL 816647 (N.J. Super. App. Div. March 8, 2010) Even if you do just a cursory review of cases that deal with online anonymity, you are bound to come across a 2001 New Jersey case called Dendrite v. Doe. That case sets out a four part analysis a court should undertake [...]
