Lafayette, IN – Magistrate Judge Andrew Rodovich of the Northern District of Indiana has denied a Motion to Quash Subpoena served on Purdue University of Lafayette, Indiana by Third Degree Films, Inc. of California as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of California. In its…
New Albany, IN – Magistrate Judge William G. Hussmann of the Southern District of Indiana has denied a Motion to Quash Subpoena filed by Defendant Doe No. 2 in First Time Video v. Indiana John Does 1-18. A copyright infringement attorney had filed a motion to quash subpoena on…
Los Angeles, CA – Wesley DeSoto of Los Angeles, California has pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal copyright infringement in a rare federal criminal prosecution of copyright infringement, which was brought in the Central District of California. Mr. DeSoto allegedly uploaded copies of the copyrighted films Black Swan,…
London, U.K. – The Guardian newspaper of London recently reported on the rash of BitTorrent lawsuits that have been filed in the United States. The Guardian reports on the claims of a blogger named TorrentFreak who has been vigorously tracking the BitTorrent lawsuits. Notably, TorrentFreak tracks that over 200,000…
Indianapolis, IN – There have been further updates to the Hard Drive Productions case in the Southern District of Indianathat Intellectual Property Law News has been closely following. The Hard Drive case is one of three similar copyright infringement lawsuits in the Southern District of Indiana all involving file sharing…
New Albany, IN – Copyright lawyers for Boy Racer, Inc. of North Bellmore, New York filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana alleging 23 Indiana John Does infringed the copyrighted work, a video called LA PINK, which has been registered by the US Copyright Office.…