Two notorious BitTorrent plaintiffs have expanded nationwide litigation campaigns, with suits against scores of “Doe” defendants in the U.S. District Court of the District of Colorado.

Several cases were filed by QOTD Film Investment Ltd., which holds copyrights to the newly-released Werner Herzog epic Queen of the Desert.  As noted in a prior troll defense post, Queen of the Desert stars James Franco, Nicole Kidman and Robert Pattinson, and the Nevada suits are part of an emerging national trolling campaign.

As noted in the prior post regarding QOTD, the nominal copyright holder is an affiliate of Benaroya Pictures, which was founded by “Michael Benaroya, scion of a prominent Seattle real-estate family,” who began backing films in 2009, including past titles such as New York, I Love You, The Romantics, Catch .44, Margin Call and The Words.

Other actions were lodged by LHF Productions, Inc., which holds copyrights to the action flick London Has Fallen, featuring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart in an assassination plot caper. This follows many other LHF suits recently filed in other jurisdictions.  As reported before, LHF is an affiliate of Nu Image / Millennium Films, which hold interests in films that have been the subject of prior enforcement actions, including Automata, The Humbling, The Expendables, Charlie Countryman and Bad Lieutenant.

The new lawsuits each allege copyright infringement by unknown “Doe” parties through their use of BitTorrent file-sharing software. The cases seek statutory damages pursuant to the Copyright Act, attorney’s fees and costs, and an injunction against further infringement.

Like many another similar lawsuits filed in the same District Court, the QOTD complaints were signed by attorney Scott T. Kannady of Brown & Kannady, PLLC in Denver, while the LHF cases were filed by David J. Stephenson, Jr. of The Rocky Mountain Thunder Law Firm.   A case listing with links to the complaints is below.

Filed: 05/09/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01048
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-16

Filed: 05/23/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01230
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-10

Filed: 05/25/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01260
QOTD Film Investment Ltd. v. Does 1-12

Filed: 05/27/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01300
QOTD Film Investment Ltd. v. Does 1-12

Filed: 05/31/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01309
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-19

Filed: 06/07/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01366
QOTD Film Investment Ltd. v. Does 1-25

Filed: 06/08/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01379
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-14

Filed: 06/17/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01485
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-17

Filed: 07/21/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01867
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-20

Filed: 07/27/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01916
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-20

Filed: 08/05/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-01993
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-12

Filed: 08/24/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-02148
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-20

Filed: 08/31/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-02208
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-18

Filed: 09/06/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-02244
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-11

Filed: 09/29/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-02456
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-10

Filed: 10/06/2016
Case No. 1:16-cv-02496
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-2

Parties and subscribers receiving ISP notices of the case can contact attorney Benjamin Justus for a free consultation regarding possible options.