Film production companies affiliated with with Voltage Pictures, LLC have filed new copyright infringement lawsuits against “John Doe” defendants in two separate U.S. District Courts in Louisiana.

First, Dallas Buyers Club, LLC filed a “singleton” case against a Doe party in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, based in Baton Rouge.  

QOTD Film Investment Ltd., which holds copyrights to the yet-unreleased Werner Herzog epic “Queen of the Desert,” has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court in Oregon. This appears to be the first such lawsuit in the U.S., outside of another suit in Arizona, according to Antonelli Law.  Queen of the Desert stars

November saw the first Pacific Northwest BitTorrent copyright lawsuits filed in Oregon by Clear Skies Nevada, LLC, which owns the rights to the 2014 film Good Kill. This film concerns a military drone pilot (played by Ethan Hawke) who questions the ethics of dropping bombs in Afghanistan from his remote post in Nevada.

Clear Skies

Lawyers representing several production companies have filed numerous copyright lawsuits against over 100 “John Doe” defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.

In each case, the plaintiff film production company alleges violations of its rights under the U.S. Copyright act arising from the Doe defendants’ alleged infringement of the film via

In a new tactic, notorious Salem, Oregon attorney Carl D. Crowell has combined claims involving multiple different films into one lawsuit against a single unfortunate Doe defendant.  Like countless prior copyright suits Crowell has filed in the U.S. District Court, District of Oregon, these allege infringement of the films via the use of BitTorrent file-sharing

PTG Nevada, LLC, the owner of copyrights to the recent Nicholas Cage film Pay the Ghost, has filed several copyright infringement lawsuits in federal court in Oregon.  These appear to be the first such lawsuits in the U.S.

Pay the Ghost was released in September and widely panned in critical reviews. Variety‘s reviewer

This past week Cobbler Nevada, LLC filed copyright infringement suits against nearly 200 John Doe parties in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

As Troll Defense previously reported, The Cobbler is comedy film starring Adam Sandler that was widely released earlier this year, with generally unfavorable reviews and uncertain box office