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Oregon Copyright Litigation Update – Spread v. The Weinstein Company et al

14 Monday Sep 2015

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Plaintiff is based in Portland, Oregon and owns the copyright in a musical work titled “I’ll Be the Light.” J.C. Penney licensed the work for use in an advertisement for a limited clothing line. The terms of the J.C. Penney license specifically excluded use of the work with DVD sales. Nevertheless, the J.C.Penney advertisement showed up on DVDs for the movie Silver Linings Playbook. This unauthorized use allegedly caused another licensee of Plaintiff (a competitor of J.C. Penney) to terminate its own license for the work.

Spread LLC v. The Weinstein Company, LLC et al

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01714
File Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015
Plaintiff: Spread LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Andrea A. Selkregg of Swider Haver
Defendant: The Weinstein Company, LLC, J.C. Penney Corporation Inc., Anchor Bay Entertainment LLC, Marchesa Holdings LLC
Cause: Federal Copyright Infringement, Breach of Contract, Unjust Enrichment
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Michael H. Simon

Complaint:

August Download Cases

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

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During the month of August, 23 copyright or trademark complaints were filed in the District of Oregon. 22 of them (96%) were movie download cases filed by Carl Crowell.

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01479
File Date: Thursday, August 06, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01481
File Date: Thursday, August 06, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01482-AA
File Date: Thursday, August 06, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01483-AA
File Date: Thursday, August 06, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 6:15-cv-01480-AA
File Date: Thursday, August 06, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01542
File Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Plaintiff: Cobbler Nevada LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01544
File Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Plaintiff: Cobbler Nevada LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01547
File Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Plaintiff: Automata Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Judge Michael W. Mosman

Court Case Number: 6:15-cv-01545-TC
File Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Plaintiff: Cobbler Nevada LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Coffin

Court Case Number: 6:15-cv-01546-AA
File Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Plaintiff: Glacier Films USA Inc., Glacier Films 1 LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01587
File Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01593-AA
File Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01594-AA
File Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01595-AA
File Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01596-AA
File Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

Court Case Number: 6:15-cv-01597-TC
File Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
Plaintiff: Survivor Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Coffin

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01631
File Date: Friday, August 28, 2015
Plaintiff: Automata Productions Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Judge Michael W. Mosman

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01632-SB
File Date: Friday, August 28, 2015
Plaintiff: Glacier Films USA Inc., Glacier Films 1 LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01633-SB
File Date: Friday, August 28, 2015
Plaintiff: Glacier Films USA Inc., Glacier Films 1 LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01634-ST
File Date: Friday, August 28, 2015
Plaintiff: Cobbler Nevada LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart

Oregon Litigation Update – adidas America v. Reliable Knitting Works

02 Thursday Jul 2015

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Adidas has filed a trademark complaint against Reliable Knitting Works, a Wisconsin based company doing business as Reliable of Milwaukee. Adidas is alleging that Muk Luks, one of Reliable’s brands, sells a shoe that, Adidas alleges, “bears parallel stripes on the mid-foot portion of the upper in a manner likely to be confused with adidas’s famous Three-Stripe Mark.”

Adidas is asking the Court to: “(a) permanently enjoin Reliable from marketing or selling footwear bearing confusingly similar two-, three-, and four-stripe imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark; (b) award adidas monetary damages and to treble that award; (c) require Reliable to disgorge all profits from sales of the Infringing Footwear; and (d) award adidas punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs.” 

adidas America, Inc. et al v. Reliable Knitting Works, Inc.

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-01217-PK
File Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Plaintiff: adidas America, Inc., adidas AG
Plaintiff Counsel: Kristina J. Holm and Stephen M. Feldman of Perkins Coie, LLP
Defendant: Reliable Knitting Works, Inc.
Cause: Federal Trademark Infringement, Federal Unfair Competition, Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices, Common Law Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition, Federal Trademark Dilution, State Trademark Dilution
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Paul Papak

5 More Cobbler Download Cases

15 Friday May 2015

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Carl Crowell has filed 5 more BitTorrent cases for Voltage Pictures‘ film, The Cobbler.

Cobbler Nevada LLC v. Doe

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-00825-ST, -00826-ST, -00827-ST, -00828-ST, -00829-ST,
File Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015
Plaintiff: Cobbler Nevada LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell, Drew P. Taylor of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement, Indirect Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart

Sample Complaint:

Another BitTorrent Download Case

01 Friday May 2015

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Carl Crowell has filed yet another BitTorrent copyright case, this time for The Humbling, starring Al Pacino. When searching for information about this film, be careful to search for Humbling, not Humbler. This is a pretty standard BitTorrent copyright complaint filed by Crowell.

A&T SPVH, Inc. v. Doe

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-00728
File Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Plaintiff: A&T SPVH, Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge John Jelderks

Oregon Trademark Litigation Update – adidas America v. Marc Jacobs International

09 Thursday Apr 2015

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Does trademark protection of Adidas’ famous “Three-Stripe Mark” also extend to four stripes? Fashion designer Marc Jacobs is ready to debate that question in Oregon federal court.

Some media coverage of the lawsuit, with images: de zeen, NY Post

Stay tuned for updates.

adidas America Inc. et al v. Marc Jacobs International LLC

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-00582
File Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Plaintiff: adidas America Inc., adidas AG
Plaintiff Counsel: Stephen M. Feldman, Kristina J. Holm of Perkins Coie LLP
Defendant: Marc Jacobs International LLC
Cause: Federal Trademark Infringement, Federal Unfair Competition, Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices, Common Law Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition, Federal Trademark Dilution, State Trademark Dilution
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Paul Papak

Oregon Copyright Litigation Update – Pinnacle Alliance Group v. Ambient Architecture

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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Plaintiff Pinnacle Alliance Group, LLC (“Pinnacle”) owns the copyright on architectural plans and designs for a senior housing facility originally planned for Sisters, Oregon. In 2011, after spending upwards of $700,000 studying the site and preparing original layouts, Pinnacle submitted their plans to the City of Sisters for review and approval. The plans were also submitted to Ageia Health Services during negotiations for Ageia to serve as the management company for the future senior center. In 2013, Pinnacle lost its opportunity to develop the site and now they allege that Defendant Ambient Architecture (d/b/a Ascent) obtained the copyrighted blueprints. Exhibit A is some of the Pinnacle plan and Exhibit B is the plan that Ascent prepared for a different developer. Pinnacle is asking for $700,000, to cover the money already spent, as well as all profits that Ascent earned on this project.

Pinnacle Alliance Group, LLC v. Ambient Architecture LLC et al

Court Case Number: 6:15-cv-00451
File Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Plaintiff: Pinnacle Alliance Group, LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Jeffrey M. Edelson of Markowitz Herbold Glade & Mehlhaf, PC
Defendant: Ambient Architecture LLC, Seth E Anderson, Krista Appleby
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken

6 More Dallas Buyer’s Club Download Cases Filed

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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The headline says it all. The real question here…why are people still downloading this movie?

Court Case Numbers: 3:15-cv-00444, -00446, -00447, -00448, -00449, and -00450
File Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Plaintiff: Dallas Buyers Club LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta

Representative Complaint:

Oregon Copyright Litigation Update – Countryman Nevada v. Doe

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Countryman Nevada LLC v. Doe

Crowell Law has filed five more copyright infringement lawsuits for BitTorrent downloads. The complaints are essentially the exact same as the Dallas Buyer’s Club suits, except these involve a film called The Necessary Death of Charley Countryman.

Why are people even trying to download this movie? It only received a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic gave it a lowly 31. With Dallas Buyer’s Club, at least people are taking risks to see an award winning film, but this flick can’t be worth the hassle. Guessing it has something to do with the film’s original rating of NC-17…

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-00433, -00435, -00436, -00437, -00438
File Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Plaintiff: Countryman Nevada LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Carl D. Crowell of Crowell Law
Defendant: Doe
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Judge Michael H. Simon

Representative Complaint:

Oregon Copyright Litigation Update – Action Window & Gutter Cleaning v. NW Home Maintenance

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Action Window & Gutter Cleaning LLC v. NW Home Maintenance LLC

If you run a business, using a competitor’s advertising as your own is not a suggested practice. Action Window & Gutter Cleaning offers numerous building-exterior cleaning services, including moss & roof cleaning. The description of this service on their website includes before and after photographs. NW Home Maintenance, doing business as Homemasters, began circulating advertisement fliers (Exhibit B below). The fliers are alleged to the before and after photographs from Action’s website, with slightly modified style and location of the text.

Court Case Number: 3:15-cv-00354-MO
File Date: Monday, March 02, 2015
Plaintiff: Action Window & Gutter Cleaning LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Abraham J. Barnett, Benjamin F. Veralrud of The Barnett Firm LLC
Defendant: NW Home Maintenance LLC
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Judge Michael W. Mosman