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  • The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc.
    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.
    Last Docket Report Change Found: January 14, 2009
  • Columbia Pictures Industries Inc v. Bunnell
    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
    Last Docket Report Change Found: January 13, 2009
  • Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated et al v. Miller
    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
    Last Docket Report Change Found: January 13, 2009
  • Gatehouse Media Massachusetts I, Inc. v. The New York Times Co.
    Massachusetts District Court
    Plaintiff
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Plaintiff: Gatehouse Media Massachusetts I, Inc.; Defendant: The New York Times Co.
    Last Docket Report Change Found: January 13, 2009
  • Shloss v. Joyce
    California Northern District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Plaintiff: Carol Loeb Shloss, Carol Loeb Shloss, Carol Loeb Shloss, Carol Loeb Shloss, Carol Loeb Shloss and others... Defendant: Stephen James Joyce
    Last Docket Report Change Found: January 13, 2009

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  • Smith v. Sumner et al
    Nevada District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Plaintiff: Roy Daniel Clyde Smith; Defendant: Gordon Matthew Sumner, Kathryn Schenker, Stewart Copeland
  • BSN Medical, Inc. v. Parker Medical Associates et al
    North Carolina Western District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Plaintiff: BSN Medical, Inc.; Defendant: Parker Medical Associates, A. Bruce Parker
  • FDV Artfolio LLC v. Woods and Willow USA LLC
    Oklahoma Western District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Plaintiff: FDV Artfolio LLC; Defendant: Woods and Willow USA LLC
  • IO Group, Inc. v. Laperna et al
    Nevada District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Plaintiff: IO Group, Inc.; Defendant: Mark Laperna, Sylvester Young, John Shafer
  • Mighty Underdog Music et al v. Mideca, LLC et al
    Connecticut District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Plaintiff: Mighty Underdog Music, Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, Universal-Polygram Intl Publishing Inc; Defendant: Mideca, LLC, Stephanie C. Angelina, Debra T. Angelina

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  • Motion to vacate default granted, without opposition, in SONY BMG Music v. Stade, Rochester, NY, case
    In SONY BMG Music v. Stade, a Rochester, New York, case, against a student who had been studying abroad in Croatia at the time of service of the summons and complaint, the RIAA has changed its position. After first forcing the defendant's lawyer to...
    by Recording Industry vs The People
  • Genachowski to head FCC?
    It was reported by the Washington Post that President-elect Obama is likely to appoint Julius Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission. This appears to bode well for a forward-looking internet policy, since Genachowski is credited...
    by Recording Industry vs The People
  • Clay Shirky Predicts Media for 2009
    Shirkey has a few specifics and a few generalities in his "Year Ahead in the Media" piece on guardian.co.uk. Nothing hugely surprising - more newspapers will stop printing, magazines (specifically specialty publications) belong online, DRM for...
    by Copyfight
  • let the remixes continue
    ...here. Then this morning I saw the link to the IndabaMusic site, which is running a contest around the clip. There are now about 20 remixes available, and more than 100 in the works. You can see those here. All of the remixes in the...
    by Lessig Blog
  • Court Requires Copyright Plaintiff to Include Allegedly Infringing Work in Complaint
    ... , Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Dec. 9, 2008) (Shadur, Sen. J.). Plaintiff filed an amended complaint including a copyright claim, after Judge Shadur orally granted defendant's motion to dismiss its original copyright and related state law claims. The...
    by Chicago IP Litigation Blog