Plaintiffs The Author's Guide. Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman sued Google Inc. for reproducing a digital copy of plaintiffs' works without the copyright holders' permission and in violation of the authors' rights under the copyright laws.
New York Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: September 20, 2005
Plaintiff: The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc.
Plaintiffs filed a complaint against defendants for copyright infringement. Plaintiffs allege that defendants knowingly enable, encourage, induce and profit from massive online piracy of plaintiffs' copyright works through the operation of their TorrentSpy website.
California Central District Court
Filed: February 23, 2006
Plaintiff: Columbia Pictures Industries Inc, Disney Enterprises Inc, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Tristar Pictures Inc, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others...; Defendant: Justin Bunnell, Forrest Parker, Wes Parker, Valence Media LLC, Does
Plaintiffs allege that defendant Norman Miller d/b/a Excel Test Preparation operates a copy shop near the University of Michigan that allows students to reproduce their own coursepack, which includes journals articles and excerpts from books. Plaintiffs further allege that defendant does not arrange for permission to copy the materials in the coursepacks from the Copyright Clearance Center, INc.
Michigan Eastern District Court
Copyright
Filed: June 28, 2007
Plaintiff: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated, Elsevier, Incorporated, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Sage Publications, Incorporated, John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated; Defendant: Norman Miller, Excel Research Group, LLC
Plaintiff RealNetworks, Inc. and RealNetworks Home Entertainment, Inc. filed an action for a declaratory judgment that the CSS License Agreement permits Plaintiffs to manufacture and offer for sale the RealDVD product and that the Plaintiffs do not violate the DMCA.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: September 30, 2008
Plaintiff: Realnetworks, Inc., Realnetworks Home Entertainment, Inc.; Defendant: DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others...
Plaintiff Coupons, Inc. alleged that Defendant John Stottlemire intentionally circumvented technological measures used to limit the number of times a visitor to the coupons.com website may print a coupon.
California Northern District Court
Copyright
Filed: July 2, 2007
Plaintiff: Coupons, Inc.; Defendant: John Stottlemire
Publisher lawsuit against public university that makes electronic copies of course readings available to students without paying royalty fees.
Georgia Northern District Court
Copyright
Filed: April 15, 2008
Plaintiff: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press and others... Defendant: Carl V. Patton, Ronald Henry, Charlene Hurt, J. L. Albert
Plaintiffs Viacom International Inc., Comedy Partners, Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Black Entertainment Television LLC alleged that Defendants YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC and Google Inc. infringed Plaintiffs' copyrights.
New York Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: March 13, 2007
Plaintiff: Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc. and others... Defendant: Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc. and others...
Jury verdict in favor of RIAA - $222,000 judgment against Minnesota woman for making music files available via Kazaa, despite her denials of doing so.
Minnesota District Court
Filed: April 19, 2006
Plaintiff: Virgin Records America, Inc, Capitol Records, Inc, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records and others...; Defendant: Jammie Thomas
Plaintiff filed a class action law suit against YouTube and Google for allowing users to upload and distribute media that infringed on plaintiff's copyrights.
New York Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: May 4, 2007
Plaintiff: The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited and others... Defendant: Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc. and others...
Plaintiff Apple Inc. alleged that Defendant Psystar Corporation sold in commerce a computer named the OpenMac--subsequently changed to Open Computer--which runs a modified version of the Leopard operating system without authorization from Plaintiff and in violation of the terms of the Software License Agreement governing the use of Mac OS X software and Plaintiff's intellectual property., Defendant also provided direct copies and/or modified versions of Plaintiff's software updates.
Plaintiff: CoStar Realty Information, Inc., CoStar Group, Inc.; Defendant: Mark Field, Lawson Valuation Group, Inc., Russ A. Gressett, Gerald A. Teel Company, Inc., John Does 1-5