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.
Plaintiff Perfect 10 sued defendant Google Inc. for displaying thumbnails of photographs copyrighted by the plaintiff. Consolidated with Perfect 10 Inc. v. Amazon.com Inc. et al. Additional Resources Ninth Circuit Opinion in Perfect 10 v. Google and Amazon.
California Central District Court
Copyright
Filed: November 19, 2004
Plaintiff: Perfect 10 Inc; Defendant: Google Inc, DoesCounter Claimant: Google Inc, Counter Defendant: Perfect 10 Inc
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: Domino Recording Company, Inc., Domino Recording Company, Inc., Independiente LTD, Independiente LTD Defendant: Interscope Geffen A & M Records, William B. Rose, Brian P. Carroll, Ron Thal, Paul Huge and others...
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...
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...
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...Counter-claimant: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and others...
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
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 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
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
Plaintiffs Craig Reed and Survivor Films, Inc. alleged that Defendants failed to pay him a portion of the profits from "FREEBIRD...THE MOVIE" which incorporated portions of Plaintiff's personal video recordings of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band. Plaintiff s also alleged that Defendants used excerpts from Plaintiff's recordings without permission in LYNYRD SKYNYRD - LYVE FROM STEEL TOWN, LYNYRD SKYNYRD LYVE - THE VICIOUS CYCLE TOUR, 2003 NASHVILLE LIVE, as well as in the music viodes for SIMPLE MAN, FREEBIRD and SWEET HOME ALABAMA.
Ohio Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: July 22, 2008
Plaintiff: Craig Reed, Survivor Films, Inc.; Defendant: Freebird Film Productions, Inc., Fly On, Inc., Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc., Vector Management, Inc., Judy Van Zant Jenness and others...
Talk radio host Michael Weiner (aka Michael Savage) and his syndication network, Original Talk Radio Network, filed a DMCA takedown request for YouTube to remove a video made by Brave New Films containing clips of Savage's commentary. Brave New Films is suing Savage and OTRN for a declaratory judgment that Savage's material in the video is a fair use. Plaintiff is also suing Savage and OTRN for damages and injunctive relief, based on alleged misrepresentations made via the takedown notice to YouTube.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: October 10, 2008
Plaintiff: Brave New Films 501 (C)(4); Defendant: Michael Weiner, Original Talk Radio Network Inc.