Aggregate data about claims filed with the Copyright Claims Board

About this page

Once a week or so* I run a script to collect information about newly available public documents on eCCB. I store that information in a SQLite database that you can download from Github if you want to run your own queries. Because the information is collected by a script and mostly not checked by a human, I can't guarantee that it's 100% accurate. It should be pretty close, and more accurate than what I was capturing with the old scripts (e.g. if two reasons are found in a dismissal order, both are now collected). I've been watching CCB data since the CCB was a few months old, and I've tried to make sure the script accounts for a variety of rare occurrences and edge cases. I also have it prompt for human input when the data it grabs is hard to interpret.

This page collects the results of some of the queries I thought would be most interesting. You can contact me (Katie Fortney) at bibliobaloney@duck.com if you have questions about other queries. I use that address for this project because while it combines my interest in copyright with my programming hobby, it's not particularly related to the work that I do for the University of California.

If you're looking for the CCB info that used to be here, it's been archived and will no longer be updated. If you want to skim or search what claimants are writing in their claims, you can download a file that incudes that language for: Infringement claims (.csv); Noninfringement claims (.csv); or DMCA misrepresentation claims (.csv).

*I'll be out on vacation in late April/early May and not updating anything during that time.

Page last updated 2024-04-24

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Final Determinations

Per the CCB website, "A CCB proceeding becomes 'active' after the claimant has filed proof of service with the CCB, and the respondent ... has not opted out within the required time (usually sixty days). ... After parties have submitted their written testimony and any hearings have been held, the CCB will issue its final determination."

Final determinations issued: 23

Docket Number	Caption	Determination type	Damages	Claimant represented?	Date	Case duration (days)
22-CCB-0058	Shocked v. Billington	Final Determination	0	No	2024-04-03	628
23-CCB-0035	Comedy Spotlight Productions, Inc. v. Store on Sunset LLC, et al	Final Determination	0	Yes	2024-03-08	408
22-CCB-0183	Schirmacher v. Allora Medical Spa	Default	7000	Yes	2024-02-16	504
22-CCB-0255	Hirsch v. Southern Chinese Daily News, LLC	Default	3600	Yes	2024-02-14	440
22-CCB-0263	Shocked v. McInnes	Final Determination	750	No	2024-02-08	423
22-CCB-0046	Oakes v. Heart of Gold Pageant System Inc., et al	Default	4500	Yes	2024-01-24	566
23-CCB-0071	Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. v. Dawson, et al	Default	0	Yes	2024-01-02	321
22-CCB-0008	Corjulo v. Mandrell	Final Determination	2250	No	2023-12-14	546
22-CCB-0012	Bronner v. EssayZoo	Default	1200	No	2023-11-20	522
23-CCB-0172	Kenna Sato Designs, LLC v. Lisitsa	Settlement	300	Yes	2023-11-14	182
22-CCB-0005	Dermansky v. Rule 62, Inc.	Default	1350	Yes	2023-11-01	503
22-CCB-0137	Urbanlip.com Ltd v. Faviana International Inc	Default	2600	Yes	2023-11-01	427
22-CCB-0112	Paramount Pictures Corporation v. JMC POP UPS LLC	Settlement	No information provided	Yes	2023-10-23	425
22-CCB-0251	Pinwheel Crafts LLC v. Pettit	Settlement	0	No	2023-10-19	322
22-CCB-0100	Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. v. The Village Restaurant LLC d/b/a Indian Village Restaurant & Lounge, et al	Default	3300	Yes	2023-10-04	418
22-CCB-0098	Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. v. Arif Skyline Cafe LLC, et al	Default	3000	Yes	2023-09-22	407
22-CCB-0219	Hursey v. Hakimian Global LLC	Default	3000	No	2023-09-22	329
22-CCB-0163	Hursey v. QUINNEY	Default	3000	No	2023-08-31	343
22-CCB-0056	Hursey v. Lavaca LLC	Default	3000	No	2023-08-24	405
22-CCB-0269	ARMATUS DEALER UPLIFT, LLC v. Wooden Automotive Consultants LLC	Settlement	9000	Yes	2023-07-05	202
22-CCB-0072	Scott Douglas Ora, individually, and in his derivative capacity as trustee of the Leo Robin Trust, on behalf of the Leo Robin Trust v. Warner Chappell Music	Dismissal	0	No	2023-06-27	335
22-CCB-0045	Oppenheimer v. Prutton	Final Determination	1000	Yes	2023-02-28	236
22-CCB-0035	Flores v. Mitrakos	Settlement	0	No	2023-02-15	232

Active Cases

Per the CCB website, "A CCB proceeding becomes 'active' after the claimant has filed proof of service with the CCB, and the respondent ... has not opted out within the required time (usually sixty days)." Once a final determination is issued, a case is no longer active.

Number of active claims as of 2024-04-24: 37

For these active cases, average number of days since the earliest available claim was filed (as of 2024-04-24): 179

Types of claims

Claim type	Cases
Infringement	35
DMCA Misrepresentation	2

Potential for default

Is there anything on the docket that was filed by a respondent (not a claimant or the CCB)?

Any filings by respondent?	Cases
Yes	20
No	17

Representation

What percent of the claims were filed by claimants with attorneys?

This information is pulled from the earliest publicly available claim filed in a case, and is only available when a claim is publicly available.

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Open Cases

Cases that have not yet reached the active phase, but also have not yet been dismissed/closed. For an overview of the steps between a claim filing and becoming active, see this flowchart at the CCB website.

Current status

Status	Cases
Waiting for Amended Claim	39
Waiting for Proof of Service	39
Waiting for Scheduling Order/Expiration of Opt Out Window	34
Waiting for Initial Review	11
Waiting for Review of Amended Claim	6
In Abeyance	2

Historical status numbers

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Dismissed Cases

Reasons for dismissal

Totals may be more than the total number of dismissal orders because a few orders include two reasons, e.g. bad faith and failure to amend.

A few claims have been dismissed as the result of a settlement with the condition that they are initially without prejudice but will become dismissals with prejudice if the claimant does not file a new claim within a certain period of time. I have abbreviated this as "Settlement; prejudice pending."

There's also a pie chart for the reasons across all dismissals so far.

Days elapsed betwen filing of initial claim filing of order dismissing claim

This data is only available for cases where the date of the filing of the claim is known.

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All Cases

Opening and resolution

Historical opening and closing numbers

Types of claims

The information about types of claims, representation, and whether a claimant has selcted the smaller claims track is pulled from the earliest publicly available claim filed in a case, and is only available when a claim is publicly available.

Smaller claims

"When total damages sought in a claim do not exceed $5,000 (exclusive of attorneys' fees and costs), a claimant may request consideration under the CCB's 'Smaller Claims' procedures. Smaller Claims will be decided by a single Copyright Claims Officer, but the determination will have the same effect as one issued by the full CCB. These types of cases are even more streamlined than the typical cases before the CCB."

Are claimants selecting the "smaller claim" option?

Representation

Is there a law firm for the claimant listed in the claim?

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Infringement Claims: Works Allegedly Infringed

In the database I created I have chosen to only include information on works from infringement claims. Some claims list multiple works. The data here describes all works listed in all infringement claims, not just, e.g., the first listed work.

Types of works

Registration

For works allegedly infringed, did the claimant assert that the work was already registered at the time the claim was filed? Note that sometimes claimants assert this when it is not the case; I collected purported registration numbers and request numbers, but did not perform any checks or analysis on those numbers.

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Claimants

Claimants appearing on 3 or more claims

Claimants	Cases
Joe Hand Promotions, Inc.	47
Michelle Shocked	15
Games Workshop Limited	12
Amy Do	10
World Media Alliance Label inc	9
Julie Dermansky	9
Jean M Guerrero	8
Dana Hursey	8
David Bibiyan	8
Langston M Childs	8
Pinwheel Crafts LLC	6
Keith F. Bell	6
Helen Walters	5
William Grecia	5
Floatsup, LLC	5
Keith F Bell	4
Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.	4
VideoHat LLC	4
Gergely Turi	4
Hillary Wright	4
Martin McNeil	3
Jon Q Wright	3
Florian Sommet	3
Dolls Kill, Inc.	3
Helen Walters, Ms	3
Eckart Klobe	3
Photolive Inc. dba Stockyard Photos	3
Allen Nelson	3
Gan Shu	3
lead creation inc	3
Shenzhiyishoumaoyishenzhenyouxiangongsi	3
Terrell Lipscomb	3
Catalina M Jaramillo	3
Angela M Jarman	3
Independent-International Pictures Corp.	3
Nadine Hokayem	3
Steven Hirsch	3

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Respondents

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Orders to Amend

This data was collected by scraping all relevant headings from all publicly availble documents matching the type "Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim." The problems with claims can vary widely, and the attorneys writing the orders to amend aren't limited to a predefined set of headings. Because of that, similar reasons/headings appear in the table below, and the full tables would be very long, so I've trimmed them as indicated below. The full list of headings found, and counts for each, is provided at the end of the page for those who want to do their own analysis.

Note that many of the orders to amend include multiple reasons.

Top reasons - all orders

Top reasons - past 30 days

Top reasons - first year of CCB operations

All reasons found

Download the CSV with counts for all reasons found across all orders to amend.