Troll Defense has observed the filing of numerous single-Doe BitTorrent copyright cases in Colorado and Michigan by Good Man Productions, Inc. The cases are based on the 2014 Steven Seagal action vehicle A Good Man. This marks at the least the second time a Seagal picture has been placed into mass copyright litigation, following
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Doe Copyright Action Against StarCraft II Hackers and Cheaters
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., the developer of popular PC game franchises including “World of Warcraft,” “Starcraft” and “Diablo,” is now in the business of anonymous copyright litigation.
Earlier this year, Blizzard filed a 20-page complaint against 10 Doe parties alleging violations of the Copyright Act, “Trafficking in Circumvention Devices” under Section 1201 of the Digital Millenium…
UPDATED: Dallas Buyers Club Files Suits against Does in Washington State
Multi-state litigant Dallas Buyers Club, LLC continues its BitTorrent copyright assault, this time filing three lawsuits against 30 Doe parties in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Troll Defense was somewhat surprised to see another multi-Doe pleading filed by the owner of copyrights in the film Dallas Buyers Club, given at…
More Singleton Doe Cases in Oregon
The owners to the rights to the acclaimed film Dallas Buyers Club are back in Oregon U.S. District Court with a batch of “singleton” lawsuits against Doe parties, alleging both federal Copyright Act and Oregon State Trademark violations.
As Troll Defense earlier reported, Voltage Pictures, LLC teamed with another production company to bring combination…
They’re Back: Voltage Singleton Doe Cases In Oregon
Some weeks after a batch of its Oregon state trademark lawsuits arising from Dallas Buyers Club were dismissed for improper joinder, Voltage has returned to the U.S. District Court in Oregon with at least two “singleton” lawsuits against Doe parties. This time the cases are based on The Company You Keep, a 2012 political…
D.C. Circuit Court Rules Against “Swarm Joinder”
Troll Defense has just learned, courtesy of Ray Beckerman, that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the joinder of many different “John Doe” parties into a single action, for purposes of obtaining early discovery of the Does’ identities, is improper when the only basis for joinder is…
More Voltage-related BitTorrent Actions in Colorado
A new BitTorrent lawsuit involving the award-winning Dallas Buyers Club film was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Colorado. The complaint sets forth now-standard allegations of copyright infringement via BitTorrent usage against 20 anonymous “Doe” parties. Unlike the Marion County, Oregon state court trademark actions involving the same film that were previously reported…
Lawsuit for “Unauthorized” Behringer Tweets filed in Seattle Federal Court
Music Group Services, US and its offshore affiliate have filed a Seattle U.S. District Court lawsuit for a host of John Doe claims related to “unauthorized” statements made via Twitter feeds.
Music Group is a holding company for a number of different brands of professional-grade music production and performance equipment, including loudspeakers, amplifiers, mixers, computer-based…
Dallas Buyers Club Lawsuits in the Oregon State Courts
The owners of rights to the award-winning Dallas Buyers Club film have resorted to filings in the state courts of Oregon naming scores of unidentified internet users.
As was reported over the last few months, an entity known as “Dallas Buyer’s Club, LLC” had begun a series of Bittorrent copyright infringement lawsuits in the federal…
Amended Complaints Naming Individuals Filed in VanderMay Law Firm Cases in Washington State
The VanderMay Law Firm, on behalf of Elf-Man, LLC and Thompsons Film, LLC, is in the process of filing several amended complaints in U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington. These new complaints identify many individuals by name, list their city and state of residence, and make other allegations regarding specified…