Several production companies continue a wave of BitTorrent-related copyright lawsuits, all filed by the same lawyers in the U.S. District Court, District of Oregon.

Several of the lawsuits involve the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.  The allegations of the complaints are similar to those made in many prior lawsuits filed by Dallas Buyers Club, LLC in the Oregon District Court.

A few other cases were filed by Killer Joe Nevada, LLC.  As Troll Defense has previously reported, these cases involve the violent 2012 “gothic” black comedy film Killer Joe.

Both Killer Joe and Dallas Buyers Club feature Matthew McConaughey in leading roles, and likely the involvement in each film of heavy-handed producer Voltage Pictures, LLC has something to do with the parallel enforcement actions.

In some of the recent actions, Voltage Pictures and Glacier Films 1, LLC are combined as plaintiffs alleging Glacier Films’ copyright infringement claims and Voltage Pictures’ claims for violations of Oregon State Trademark laws. These particular cases involve the 2014 film American Heist, which was summarized in a Variety review as follows:

As generic as its title, American Heist is a pile of crime-meller cliches, with Hayden Christensen as the good brother trying to stay on the straight-and-narrow and Adrien Brody as the bad boy who drags Junior into an ill-starred bank robbery scheme.

 This tactic was last employed by Voltage Pictures in other Oregon lawsuits filed by the same lawyer last year.  In other cases, Glacier Films (USA), Inc. is a co-plaintiff, making only copyright claims.

More recently, there was another filing by TCYK, LLC, which had been relatively inactive since earlier suits dating back over a year ago.  These actions are based on The Company You Keep, a 2012 political thriller starring Robert Redford, and another picture in which Voltage Pictures has some involvement or interest.

Each of the lawsuits names a single Doe party as defendant and seeks statutory damages under the Copyright Act, attorney’s fees and injunctive relief.  The cases were filed by attorney Carl D. Crowell of Salem, OR.

UPDATE (11/30/15): A more recent Glacier Films case joins together its claims against 8 separate Doe parties.  As discussed in a prior post, this indicates a continued effort by Crowell Law and its film company clients to return to a prior pattern of multi-Doe lawsuits in Oregon, based on allegations of common infringing conduct and permissive joinder.

UPDATE (8/10/16): More recent TCYK and Glacier Films cases were filed against single Does.  This follows a handful of decisions from this Court which each concluded that BitTorrent cases were not appropriate for permissive joinder of several defendants.

Listings of the cases, together with links to complaints, are as follows:

Case No. 3:15-cv-444
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-73.25.31.24
Filed: 03/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-446
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-76.115.38.251
Filed: 03/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-447
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-198.0.58.131
Filed: 03/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-448
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-173.164.116.49
Filed: 03/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-449
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-50.137.186.141
Filed: 03/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-450
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-76.105.252.19
Filed: 03/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-608
Killer Joe Nevada, LLC v. Doe-67.160.136.201
Filed: 04/12/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-609
Killer Joe Nevada, LLC v. Doe-73.164.254.7
Filed: 04/12/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-610
Killer Joe Nevada, LLC v. Doe-71.237.173.145
Filed: 04/12/2015

Case No. 6:15-cv-611
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-98.246.98.60
Filed: 04/13/2015

Case No. 6:15-cv-612
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-50.139.121.165
Filed: 04/13/2015

Case No. 6:15-cv-668
Voltage Pictures, LLC v. Doe-50.186.40.95
Filed: 04/20/2015

Case No. 6:15-cv-669
Voltage Pictures, LLC v. Doe-50.137.54.92
Filed: 04/20/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-975
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-24.21.98.129
Filed: 06/03/2015

Case No. 6:15-cv-977
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-24.20.233.254
Filed: 06/03/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-1040
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-76.115.63.153
Filed: 06/11/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01332
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-24.21.161.126
Filed: 07/17/2015

Case No: 6:15-cv-01546
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-24.20.10.154
Filed: 08/14/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01632
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-73.25.26.28
Filed: 08/28/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01633
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-73.25.111.18
Filed: 08/28/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01725
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-76.115.17.40
Filed: 09/11/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01727
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-73.37.117.56
Filed: 09/11/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01728
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-73.190.89.157
Filed: 09/11/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01729
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-73.180.2.94
Filed: 09/11/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01730
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-71.238.59.116
Filed: 09/11/2015

Case No.: 3:15-cv-01772
Killer Joe Nevada, LLC v. Doe-50.186.19.7
Filed: 09/18/2015

Case No.: 3:15-cv-01773
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-67.171.181.233
Filed: 09/18/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-01815
Killer Joe Nevada, LLC v. Doe-71.237.180.187
Filed: 09/25/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-01816
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-71.56.153.1
Filed: 09/25/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-01817
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-73.164.151.227
Filed: 09/25/2015

Case No. 3:15-cv-01828
TCYK, LLC et al v. Doe-24.21.175.89
Filed: 09/26/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01867
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-24.20.72.210
Filed: 10/02/2015

Case No: 6:15-cv-01868
Killer Joe Nevada, LLC v. Doe-50.202.219.46
Filed: 10/02/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01911
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-71.193.182.60
Filed: 10/09/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-01912
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. et al v. Doe-24.21.153.226
Filed: 10/09/2015

Filed: 10/30/2015
Case No: 6:15-cv-02053
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. v. Doe-24.20.202.92

Filed: 10/30/2015
Case No: 3:15-cv-02054
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. v. Doe-24.22.28.35

Filed: 10/30/2015
Case No: 3:15-cv-02055
Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Doe-24.21.227.55

Filed: 11/14/2015
Case No: 3:15-cv-02139
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. v. Doe-24.20.141.220, et al

Case No. 3:16-cv-01411
Glacier Films (USA), Inc. v. Doe-50.186.63.76
Filed: 07/11/2016

Case No. 3:16-cv-01485
TCYK, LLC v. Doe-173.87.37.3
Filed: 07/21/2016