Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 24 Jun 2010
Court grants summary judgment for YouTube and Google in copyright infringement action for large amount of copyrighted material on website, holding that defendants are entitled to the DMCA 512(c) safe harbor because they had insufficient notice of the particular infringements.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 26 May 2010
In a case arising out of the infringing use of BitTorrent technology, the court grants plaintiff copyright holders a permanent injunction against defendants, finding that plaintiffs met all of the factors for a permanent injunction under eBay.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 14 Apr 2010
District court denies Veoh Networks’ motion for attorney’s fees in DMCA safe harbor litigation, holding, inter alia, that Veoh failed to demonstrate that UMG acted in bad faith by failing to use DMCA’s notice and takedown procedure before filing suit and that UMG’s claims were not objectively unreasonable.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 24 Mar 2010
Defendant’s improper takedown notice did not constitute copyright infringement where plaintiff alleged no affirmative copying of its work and defendant’s failure to investigate independently whether a video was infringing prior to sending the takedown notice did not constitute misrepresentation under 17 U.S.C. 512(f).
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 24 Mar 2010
After a bench trial, the district court entered judgment in favor of plaintiff financial institutions on their claims of copyright infringement and "hot news misappropriation" against online aggregator of financial information.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 3 Mar 2010
Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision granting summary judgment to plaintiff record companies for copyright infringement, based on defendant individual’s sharing of digital audio files, but reversed the lower court’s determination that the defendant was an “innocent infringer.”
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 27 Jan 2010
In peer-to-peer copyright infringement action, court grants defendant’s motion for remittitur and reduces jury’s statutory damage award from $1,920,000 to $54,000 after holding that jury’s statutory damages award is shocking and unjust; court concludes that treble the minimum statutory damages amount of $750 per song is the maximum amount the jury could properly have awarded.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 27 Jan 2010
Court grants plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction in copyright and trademark infringement action against publisher of a Twilight fanzine that used plaintiff’s Twilight trademark as well as images from the Twilight films and promotional images that were taken from plaintiff’s publicity website.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 20 Jan 2010
In copyright infringement action against operator of BitTorrent websites, court grants summary judgment to plaintiff movie studios on liability for inducement to infringe.
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 16 Dec 2009
Court grants plaintiff record companies’ request for a permanent injunction barring defendant from downloading unauthorized copies of plaintiffs’ copyrighted works and requiring defendant to destroy all such files, but court denies plaintiffs’ request for a permanent injunction barring defendant from “promoting” use of the internet to infringe copyrights, on First Amendment grounds.