Declaratory Judgment - Copyright Infringement... More...   $0 (12-20-2000 - CA)

Copyright Infringement Claim - Plaintiff claimed that defendants wrongfully posted the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' confidential policy handbook on the Internet. The plaintiff claimed that Jerald and Sandra Tanner of Utah Lighthouse Ministry illegally published copyrighted material from the "Church Handbook of Instructions," which is available only to Mormon officials. The excerpts... More...   $0 (12-08-2000 - UT)

Copyright Infringement - 28 U.S.C. 1338 - Microsoft alleged that Gorilla Systems, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma unlawfully distributed counterfeit components of Mircosoft's copyrighted software. ... More...   $0 (12-06-2000 - OK)

This appeal trails in the wake of a permanent injunction entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts that restrained the named defendants -- Eddy L.O. Jansson, Matthew Skala, and the companies that host their respective web pages (Scandinavia Online AB and Islandnet.com) -- and "their agents, employees, and all persons in active concert or participation" with them... More...   $0 (09-27-2000 - MA)

Copyright Infringement - The allegations made by the plaintiff and the defenses asserted by the defendants are unknown at this time.... More...   $0 (09-27-2000 - CA)

Appellant Worldwide Church of God ("WCG") is a nonprofit religious organization whose late Pastor General, Herbert W. Armstrong, wrote a 380-page book entitled Mystery of the Ages ("MOA"), the copyright to which is held by WCG. After Armstrong's death, WCG retired MOA from distribution and use. Appellee Philadelphia Church of God ("PCG"), also a nonprofit religious organization, then appropr... More...   $0 (09-18-2000 - CA)

Copyright infringement - Plaintiffs, the owners of the copyrights on thousands of music titles, sought injunctive relief and damages for the illegal copying and distribution of their intellectual property. Defendant purchased 10,000 CDs and loaded them on its Internet site and allowed visitors to the site to listen to the music after "proving" that they already owned a copy of the music. Plainti... More...   $250000000 (09-07-2000 - NY)

Copyright Infringement Claim - Defendants Westside Story Newspaper, Wallace J. Allen and W.J. Allen Multimedia Productions, Inc., own and operate a weekly newspaper that is based in Southern California. Plaintiffs' trademark, "West Side Story", was incorporated into the title of the defendants' newspaper. Plaintiffs further alleged that defendants wrongfully registered www.westsidestory.com as... More...   $0 (08-22-2000 - NJ)

This case requires us to apply copyright principles to stylized photographs of a vodka bottle. Specifically, we must decide whether professional photographer Joshua Ets-Hokin's commercial photographs, dubbed "product shots, " of the Skyy Spirits vodka bottle merit copyright protection. Given the Copyright Act's low threshold for originality generally and the minimal amount of originality req... More...   $0 (08-18-2000 - CA)

Copyright Infringement - 17 U.S.C. 101 - Motion Picture Association of America claimed that Corley violated the Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by posting the Decode Content Scrambling System ("DeCSS") software on www.2600.org where it could be downloaded by used by the public to defeat the DVD copy protection system adopted by the movie industry in an effort to prevent the copying of DVD movies ... More...   $0 (08-18-2000 - NY)

Plaintiffs, eight major United States motion picture studios, distribute many of their copyrighted motion pictures for home use on digital versatile disks ("DVDs"), which contain copies of the motion pictures in digital form. They protect those motion pictures from copying by using an encryption system called CSS. CSS-protected motion pictures on DVDs may be viewed only on players and compu... More...   $0 (08-17-2000 - NY)

The plaintiff were hired by Winfrey's production company to shoot thousands of photos of Winfr... More...   $0 (08-17-2000 - IL)

Copyright Infringement - 17 U.S.C. 101 - Plaintiffs asserted that defendant was encouraging the "wholesale infringment" of their copyrights on music recordings through the use of defendant's Internet site and sought an injunction. Plaintiffs claimed that Napster was encouraging an unrestrained and illegal online bazaar for the copying of copyrighted recordings. Napster claimed that the personal c... More...   $0 (07-26-2000 - CA)

Patent - Copyright and Common Law Fraud Claims. Plaintiffs claimed that American Cyanamid wrongfully filed a patent application for a iron rich vitamin supplement for pregnant women based upon research perform by professors at the University of Colorado.... More...   $0 (07-07-2000 - CO)

Bidder's Edge denied that its activities constituted a trespass on eBay's site. ... More...   $0 (05-23-2000 - CA)

Plaintiff Elya is an artist who oil paintings include "Flowers in Basket," "Big Bouquet of Flowers on Marble Table," and "Flowers in Jug." He registered the copyrig... More...   $0 (05-16-2000 - NY)

Napster denied infringing the plaintiffs' copyrights and claimed that it was a "mere conduit" of information, like a phone network or an Internet service provider. Napster is an Int... More...   $0 (05-08-2000 - CA)

Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1125, Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 101, and New York common law unfair competition claims by wine cellar retailer which operates outlets in New York, Brookline, Massachusetts, and Seattle, Washington against defendants for using the conceptual marketing model developed by plaintiff. Plaintiff claimed that defendants sought to appropriate the marketing and design concepts used by... More...   $0 (03-31-2000 - NY)

Copyright infringement claim - Plaintiff claimed that defendants were wrongfully publishing the software source code and binaries known as "CP4break.zip" and "cphack.exe". ... More...   $0 (03-28-2000 - MA)

Defendants denied wrongdoing and a... More...   $3400000 (03-23-2000 - PA)

Copyright Infringement - Plaintiff sued movie technical consultant alleging copyright infringement. Plaintiff designed patterns for 15 blocks on a quilt to be used in a movie. Another quilt was also needed for the movie and one of the blocks from the original quilt designed by Plaintiff was used on the second quilt. ... More...   $14053 (03-07-2000 - MD)

Civil Rights - Free Speech - School - Plaintiff, Nick Emmett, was an eighteen-year-old senior at Kentlake High School. He had a grade point average of 3.95, was co-captain of the basketball team and had no disciplinary history. On February 13, 2000, he posted a web page on the Internet that was created from his home without using school resources or time. The web page was entitled "Un-official ... More...   $1 (02-23-2000 - WA)

Copyright Infringement - 17 U.S.C. § 501 - The National Football League; National Basketball Association; NBA Properties, Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Disney Enterprises, Inc.; Columbia Trista... More...   $0 (02-09-2000 - PA)

Unfair Competition - Copyright Infringement - Plaintiff moves to reinstate the November 17, 1998 Preliminary Injunction Order based on Defendant's alleged unfair competition and expand the injunction to cover new acts of alleged unfair competition. Plaintiff alleges Defendant tried to squash the competitive threat posed by Plaintiff's new product in order to maintain its monopoly in desktop opera... More...   $0 (01-24-2000 - CA)

Copyright Infringement - 28 U.S.C. 1338 - Former porn star Traci Lords brought suit against Defendant for sellling a legal pornographic movie made by her in France shortly after she turned 18. Other movies by Ms. Lords cannot be shown legally in the United States. ... More...   $129000 (12-07-1999 - CA)