Our Cases

Our attorneys have extensive experience with content protection matters in virtually every context:  linking and locker sites; “UGC” and download sites; peer-to-peer distribution; offshore sites; password-sharing; theft from subscription sites; end user enforcement; physical piracy; and unfair competition by competitors.

 

Among other cases they litigated in their careers are:

• A&M Records v. Napster
  Enjoining the Napster P2P network in California.
• Andersen v. Atlantic Records
  Represented record companies in putative class action in Oregon regarding their anti-piracy efforts.
  
• Arista Records v. LimeWire
  Injunctive relief and finding of willful copyright infringement against proprietors of illegal peer to peer file-sharing service, along with $105 million settlement reached during damages trial.
  
• Arista Records v. MediaServices (AllofMp3.com)
  Copyright infringement suit against illegal download site based in Russia.

• Arista Records v. MP3Board.com
  Represented record companies in copyright suit over linking to infringing recordings.
• Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Project Playlist
  Copyright infringement suit against service billing itself as music search engine.
• Arista Records v. Usenet.com
  Spoliation sanctions and summary judgment for copyright infringement against commercial USENET service operator, with multi-million dollar damages award.
• BMG Music v. Gonzalez
  7th Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of copyright owner in Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

• Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset
  Jury verdict of willful infringement in Minneapolis for $1.92 million for unauthorized uploading and downloading of music on a P2P network.
• CoStar Group v. LoopNet
  Copyright suit stemming from posting of photographs to real estate listing website.
• Higher Education Publishers’ anti-counterfeiting enforcement
  Represent several of the nation’s largest educational publishers in their efforts to combat physical counterfeiting
• Higher Education Publishers v. Student of Fortune, Inc.
  Represented The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., John Wiley & Sons Inc., Cengage Learning Inc., Pearson Education Inc. and Elsevier Inc. in asserting copyright and trademark claims and reaching a settlement.
• In re Aimster
  Enjoining Aimster in multi-district litigation proceeding in Chicago.
• Media Group
  Jury verdict of willful infringement against CD replicator for $136 million in Los Angeles.
• MGM v. Grokster
  Represented movie studios and record companies in Supreme Court, won 9-0 reversal.
• Record industry’s peer to peer enforcement program
  Oversaw thousands of cases around the country on behalf of the record industry.
• Sony v. Tenenbaum
  Jury verdict of willful infringement in Boston for $675,000 for unauthorized uploading and downloading of music on a P2P network.
• Theft of Services Cases
  Injunctive relief, damages, and settlements arising from misuse of subscription-based online services.

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