Several new copyright suits were lodged in three U.S. District Courts across North Carolina by LHF Productions, Inc. and ME2 Productions, Inc., further confirming the status of their common affiliate, Nu Image / Millennium Films, as one of the most prolific “troll-style” copyright enforcers in the nation.

LHF 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 Troll Defense reported before, ME2 Proudctions Inc. has rights in the 2016 action thriller Mechanic: Resurrection, which stars Jessica Alba and Jason Stratham.  The films’s predecessor, The Mechanic, was also the subject of BitTorrent lawsuits.

As reported before, LHF and ME2 are each affiliates of Nu Image / Millennium Films, which hold interests in films that have been the subject of prior enforcement actions, including Septembers in Shiraz, Criminal, Automata, The Humbling, The Expendables, Charlie Countryman and Bad Lieutenant.

The new cases, filed in the Eastern, Middle and Western District Courts, allege copyright infringement by  scores of separate “Doe” parties through their use of BitTorrent file-sharing software.  The plaintiffs are out for statutory damages pursuant to the Copyright Act, attorney’s fees and costs, and an injunction against further infringement.

These complaints were signed by Cary, N.C. attorneys Kathleen M. Lynch and/or R. Matthew Van Sickle.  A case listing with links to the complaints is below.

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

Case No. 5:16-cv-00149
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-9
Filed: 08/12/2016

Case No. 1:16-cv-01050
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-10
Filed: 08/12/2016

Case No. 5:16-cv-00739
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-10
Filed: 08/12/2016

Case No. 5:16-cv-00875
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-9
Filed: 10/31/2016

Filed: 11/03/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00881
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/03/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00202
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/04/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00885
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/04/2016
Case No. 4:16-cv-00273
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/14/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00896
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/14/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00206
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/23/2016
Case No. 4:16-cv-00278
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-13

Filed: 11/23/2016
Case No. 7:16-cv-00394
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-16

Filed: 11/23/2016
Case No. 4:16-cv-00279
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-16

Filed: 11/23/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00917
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/28/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00920
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 11/28/2016
Case No. 5:16-cv-00922
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Does

Filed: 02/23/2017
Case No. 5:17-cv-00099
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. John Does 1-15

Filed: 02/23/2017
Case No. 1:17-cv-00150
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. John Does 1-12

Filed: 03/10/2017
Case No. 5:17-cv-00121
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. John Does 1-5

Filed: 03/15/2017
Case No. 5:17-cv-00131
ME2 Productions, Inc. v. John Does 1-5

Filed: 06/12/2017
Case No. 5:17-cv-00283
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-11

Filed: 06/12/2017
Case No. 5:17-cv-00284
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-9

Filed: 06/12/2017
Case No. 1:17-cv-00151
LHF Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-5