14 results for 'cat:"Copyright" AND cat:"Attorney Fees"'.
J. Altman grants the photograph owner's motion for default final judgment against a site which republished its photo of actor Jim Carrey without permission. The site is enjoined from continuing to store or display the photo, and the owner is entitled to judgment in the amount of $12,575 and attorneys' fees and costs in the amount of $8,061.75.
Court: USDC Southern District of Florida, Judge: Altman, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv23601, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees
J. Mosman grants the seminar attendee and the former student $376,700 in attorney fees against the doctor's complaint that the former two made and sold Chinese medicine courses that infringe on the doctor's copyrighted pulse diagnosis method. The seminar attendee and the former student are entitled to attorney fees, because the doctor claims that those two infringed on his PowerPoint slides used to teach his technique, but his expert only identified 15 out of 120 slides as substantially similar to the doctor's, and the doctor's claim ultimately tries to protect unprotectable ideas.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Mosman, Filed On: March 4, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv1694, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, Experts, attorney Fees
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J. Altman grants the copyright holder's motion for entry of a default final judgment in its suit against the Instagram poster alleging that the poster used the copyright holder's video of a tornado hitting a truck without authorization. The court has jurisdiction over the case, the holder has sufficiently pleaded copyright infringement, and its requests for $30,000 in statutory damages and injunctive relief are appropriate. Attorneys' fees and costs are also awarded.
Court: USDC Southern District of Florida, Judge: Altman, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv22903, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees
J. Gutierrez grants the trainer $163,900 in attorney fees after she and Sculpt Society succeeded against the choreography-based fitness company's claim that the trainer, who used to work for the company, used its methods to start Sculpt Society. The trainer asked for $239,000 in attorney fees, but that amount is adjusted because the work of the practice support supervisor for clerical or secretarial tasks is excluded in lodestar analyses as it is considered part of the firm’s overhead, among other reductions.
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Gutierrez, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv4735, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees
J. McCormick grants the sculptor $1.1 million in attorney fees and costs following a jury's $450,000 verdict finding that the real estate company infringed on the sculptor’s “Untitled” sculpture. The sculptor’s original lodestar figure is over $1.3 million as it included work performed over two years that involved extensive motion practice, discovery and trial preparation, but not all requested hours are reasonable because the sculptor’s attorneys spent a significant amount of time conferencing, and the attorneys sometimes triple-billed this time.
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: McCormick, Filed On: August 21, 2023, Case #: 8:21cv1585, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees
J. Kirsch finds that the lower court improperly denied the cremation society's request to recover attorney's fees after defeating a software company's copyright allegations against it. The software company argued the society prevailed because of an intervening Supreme Court case, Google v. Oracle America, that made its fair use defense "ironclad," but the Supreme Court's ruling simply clarified the strength of that defense - it did not change the law. Vacated.
Court: 7th Circuit, Judge: Kirsch, Filed On: August 11, 2023, Case #: 22-1641, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees, Technology
J. Lawrence enters default judgment against a meat supplier on a professional food industry photography company's copyright claims, finding the supplier willfully displayed the copyrighted photograph on its website without purchasing a yearly subscription to the company's service. The court awards the company $23,970 in statutory damages, plus $2,071 in attorney fees and $512 in costs. The court further issues a permanent injunction prohibiting the supplier from infringing on the company's copyrighted works.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: Lawrence, Filed On: June 27, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv704, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees
J. You grants the business entity's counsel $15,000 in attorney fees in relation to the author's dismissed claim that the owners of the business took ideas from the author's book "Why God Doesn't Exist," and used them for their website, YouTube videos and podcasts. The author's copyright claims were "objectively unreasonable, if not frivolous" and the counsel for the owners, at a reasonable rate and reasonable hours, won so successfully that the author's claims were dismissed with prejudice.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: You, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv380, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: copyright, attorney Fees
J. Conrad awards more than $823,000 in attorney fees to a software company following its default judgment against a former, now-bankrupt partner on its trade secret misappropriation and copyright infringement claims. The requested $838,000 in attorney fees is reduced due, in part, to excessively billed hours.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Conrad, Filed On: May 15, 2023, Case #: 3:19cv195, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: copyright, Trade Secrets, attorney Fees