| Case | Claim type | Description of Work | Description of Infringement (up to 1200 characters) |
Claimant | Claimant Law Firm | Respondent | Most recent filing |
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| 22-CCB-0100 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 22-CCB-0099 | infringement | Photograph of the exterior of St. Joseph Medical Tower | Respondent illicitly copied the photograph (which appears under non-exclusive license on Mr. Durant's client's website), posted, and thereby distributed the photograph for its commercial purposes, i.e., to promote its business on its website. Despite demand letter, DMCA takedown required to effect removal of the work; respondent then replied to confirm removal but refused to discuss damages/settlement. | Durant | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | Soho Taco Gourmet Taco Catering LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0098 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Claimant Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Claimant") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Claimant was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] the Ultimate Fighting Championship® 241: Daniel Cormier vs. Stipe Miocic 2 mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on August 17, 2019 (the "Program") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Program in their commercial business without authorization from Claimant.
Respondents Arif Skyline Café LLC and Hellen Abera Kassa (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Arif Skyline Café located at 3811 S. George Mason Drive, Suite C, Falls Church, VA 22041 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program.
Respondent Hellen Abera Kassa is an individual who resides in | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Arif Skyline Cafe LLC, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0097 | infringement | A man posing with a guitar like hes shooting a gun | my photograph were used by a band for publicity purposes for their own profit | Wofton | none | MARKASKY | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0096 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 22-CCB-0095 | -DMCA- | NA | NA | Barabanov | none | Богачев | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0094 | infringement | This is a video that I filmed of my dog and my best friend. I added audio and text and shared to my tiktok and Instagram pages | A massive media agency stole my content and is profiting of f it. They downloaded and removed my watermarks from a video that I created and shared on my own social media pages. I am a full-time content creator and make my living by selling content and by posting content. I get paid by social media platforms per like, view and share of my content. Additionally, I get paid in all future brand deals based on how many, followers, views and likes my profiles have.
Doing Things Media, and their subsidiary Doggos Doing Things stole the video from my account, removed my watermarks, and shared it to their own account, amassing over 1.8 million views. They did not appropriately tag me nor ask my permission to use my content. I commented and messaged asking for appropriate credit, at the very least. My followers also began commenting on the post asking them to credit me. They deleted those comments.
I then emailed them 2 times, once asking them to take the content down and twice with an invoice asking them to simply pay my content fee - the standard fee I charge for usage without watermarks or tagging.
They are not only making money off my content but stealing my potential income | Lee | none | Doing Things Media | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0093 | infringement | None given | Horton Records or Brian Horton is distributing, reproducing, performing, displaying, etc., unpublished work with regard to the musical composition "Black Cherry." And in addition, a second musical composition published and titled, "Desiree." | Markham | none | Horton Records, LTD. | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0092 | infringement | None given | A photograph of my copywritten work was taken, a watermark of my name was removed, and the photo was used without my permission for commercial purposes.
Respondent used subject images in online advertising without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. | Mazza | none | Gripeo LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0091 | infringement | Photograph of a senior woman jogging in a park wearing a pink sweat shirt | The image in question is used as a featured image on a commercial web page promoting the infringers business as well as featuring paid advertising. | Hursey | none | Nayyar | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0090 | infringement | A photograph of my blue acrylic pour painting | A photograph of my artwork was taken, a watermark of my name was removed, and the photo was used without my permission for commercial purposes by two companies over the course of at least two years.
On December 18, 2019, I discovered that my photograph of one of my original acrylic paintings was being used as the primary advertising photo to sell “BYOB” acrylic pour painting classes at a New York-based company called “The Paint Place” through the website CourseHorse.com.
They posted this photo in affiliation with multiple classes being held at least two different “The Paint Place” art studio locations in the New York City area throughout 2019 and 2020.
According to posts of class listings on CourseHorse.com for “BYOB Panting: Paint Pouring” that had my photograph posted on them, these classes were being sold at a price of $60 per person, had an “average of twenty students” per class, and were often listed as being “sold out”.
This photograph was of artwork that I created as part of an acrylic pour painting tutorial that I wrote and published exclusively on the arts & crafts website FeltMagnet.com on September 4th, 2018.
How to Do a Pour Painting: A Tutorial for Begin | Kelley | none | CourseHorse, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0089 | infringement | product description | Infringers have copied our work to describe their products. | lead creation inc | none | Liu | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0088 | infringement | product description | The linked text plagiarizes our work | lead creation inc | none | Amazon.com, Inc., et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0087 | infringement | product description | plagiarized our work | lead creation inc | none | xincheng | Order Denying Request to Link tara shank with the lead creation inc party |
| 22-CCB-0086 | infringement | Book | My book was published on October 9, 2018. The original contract stated that the contract was good for two years and that I had full creative control along with the rights. 6 months after the release date, an email was sent out to all authors advising that the company was closing down and that our files would be sent to us. Any accounts where our book was being sold would be transferred in our names. The files were never transferred and royalties have not been paid to date. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kindle have been selling my book on their sites and sending the money elsewhere. I'm assuming to Kenn Dunn. | Phillips | none | Amazon Legal Department | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0085 | infringement | Instrumental Music Recording | The respondents have used the core melodic and rhythmic theme of my song "Heart/the Beat" in their 2019 release of "Ilomilo." An expert's analysis is summarized in this excerpt:
"... this researcher concludes that these similarities have not occurred by chance or by coincidence. Therefore, they must have occurred by design. Since Heart/The Beat is the earliest copyrighted recording of the two, it appears as if significant aspects of Mr. Brown's musical material and ideas, which also appear in ilomilo, have been appropriated by the creators of ilomilo without Mr. Brown's permission and have been incorporated into the recording of that song." | Brown | none | Eilish, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0084 | infringement | My own original music and lyrics all of which I wrote, composed, and recorded with my own voice and my piano. | In 2003, according to product labeling, Hasbro, Inc., without my informed consent, virtually trademarked a reproduction of the fable genre, symbolism, and fictional characterization, not just the title, of my own original June 1971 Unity Wee Wisdom (page 35) poem, The Groovy Pig, into the fable character plastic figurine toy, Groovy Peppa, a model of the Hasbro, Inc. trademarked Peppa Pig figurine line of retail toy products. As a result, I see the toy as a reproduction of my poem in that such fable character figurine is an anthropomorphic pig dressed up like a typical housewife with a guitar to be a rock star, whereas my poetic fable depicts an anthropomorphic sheep as a good samaritan giving up fleece to an anthropomorphic pig on the phone like a typical shopper with the fleece as a wig to be somebody. | Richards | none | Hasbro, Inc. | Order Denying Request to Link Stephen M Richards with the Hasbro, Inc. and Stephen M Richards parties |
| 22-CCB-0083 | infringement | Composition | The infringers willfully used my compositions without leasing or exclusive rights. The label and artist consistently distributed and sold compositions that I own the rights to over several platforms such as: Apple music, Spotify, VEVO, Youtube etc. | Childs | none | Empire Distribution INC, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0082 | infringement | Photograph of MMA fighter Jimi Manuwa at event weigh-in | Claimant created the Photograph at issue (“Photo”) on September 28, 2012.
Claimant first published the Photo less than 24 hours later when he provided it, with others, to his original client (Vox Media) for its consideration (Vox did not choose to use the photograph).
Claimant then licensed the Photo, non-exclusively, to Smuggling Duds on Oct. 1, 2012.
Smuggling Duds added its logos (“Logos”) to the Photo, as permitted under its license, prior to its publication of the Photo.
Smuggling Duds published the Photo with Logos on the Smuggling Duds website, at https://smugglingduds.com/blogs/news/at-the-ufc-weigh-ins-with-dan-the-outlaw-hardy-and-jimi-the-posterboy-manuwa, on October 2, 2012, under its license (it is still visible at that URL).
The Photo, as it appears on the Smuggling Duds website, contains Claimant’s copyright management information metadata, including his name, address, and other contact information.
On information and belief, the Photo with Logos had not appeared anywhere other than on the Smuggling Duds website prior to the infringement by Respondent.
On information and belief, on or shortly before May 17, 2013, Respondent accessed the Smuggling Duds websi | McNeil | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | Blackbelt TV, Inc. | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0081 | -DMCA--noninfringement | NA | NA | Hiro LLC | none | Dragvertising LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0080 | infringement | Photograph of wine bottle | Respondent used subject images in online advertising without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. | DeHerrera | Law Office of Eric Ridley | G. K. Skaggs, Inc. | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0079 | infringement-DMCA- | Image of Michael Jordan mid-air, dunking basketball | Listing derivative products on Etsy | Goatpix, LLC | Law Office of Eric Ridley | Matei | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0078 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Helayne Seidman is a photojournalist based in New York. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to a photograph of Golden Krust CEO Lowell Hawthorne.
Respondent is the owner and operator of the website www.goldentaxrelief.com which is a website that promotes the Respondent’s tax planning business.
On or about February 2021, Claimant discovered that her photograph was being displayed on Respondent's website in an blog post designed to push traffic to the Respondent’s website and promote it’s business. | Seidman | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Golden Tax Relief LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0077 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Christopher Sadowski is a photojournalist based in New Jersey and working primarily in New York City. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to a photograph of a food delivery worker delivering food on a bike in New York City.
Respondent is the owner and operator of the website www.joltbike.com which is a website that promotes the Respondent’s electronic bike and scooter service.
On or about November 2021, Claimant discovered that his photograph was being displayed on Respondent's website in an blog post designed to push traffic to the Respondent’s website and promote it’s business. | Sadowski | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Joltbike LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0076 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Steven Hirsch is a photojournalist based in New York City. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to a photograph of NYC graffiti artist Adam Cole and a photograph of Samantha Barbash, the real life inspiration for the 2019 film “Hustlers”.
Respondent is the owner and operator of the website www.thesource.com which is a culture focused editorial website with extensive advertising. On information and belief, Respondent monetizes its website through paid advertising.
On or about September 2021, Claimant discovered that two of his photographs were being displayed on Respondent's website, each in separate editorial articles. Claimant never licensed the photographs to Respondent or otherwise granted Respondent permission to use his photographs. | Hirsch | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Source Digital Inc | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0075 | infringement | Photograph of apartment 9 at 212 E 29th Street | Respondents reproduced, displayed, and distributed unauthorized copies of Claimant’s Photographs to the websites streeteasy.com, zillow.com, trulia,com and hotpads.com. Respondents exploited Claimant’s Photographs to advertise property they own/manage for lease, and upon information and belief, leased the property utilizing only Claimant’s Photographs as sole advertising media. Respondents ignored a takedown demand from Claimant. Claimant had not granted Respondent any license or permission to reproduce, publicly display, or otherwise use the Photograph for any purpose. | Totin | none | BRIGHTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0074 | infringement | Greeting Card | The respondent directly copied our design, as well as, a design from Note Card Cafe and then bundled them together and listed them for sale on Amazon under the ASIN:B08G8Y3SWP. I contact Amazon through their Brand Registry team and they removed the listing off the website. The respondent then disputed the claim and now Amazon require us to sue the respondent in order to prevent them from selling this product on Amazon.com. | Market On Mainstreet | none | Cheong Lau | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0073 | infringement | A 1969 musical recording which includes seven individual works/songs, including the Title "Trip Thru Hell Part 1, first published January 01,1978 in the United States ISWC T9275121829, Th author created music, music arrangement as well as lyrics | Rakeem Calief Myer, using the professional name “Roc Marciano” knowingly infringed on at least two of my fully copyrighted songs from my copyrighted 1969 album titled “Trip Thru Hell” and a 1995 CD release by Sundazed records with the same music and title.
I not only wrote the music I recorded and produced the original album from which he created the derivatives from.
The songs of mine that were used to create the derivatives were “Trip Thru Hell Part 1”, “I Shot the King” and possibly others yet to be discovered (Attachments 1,2,3)
Mr. Myer created a minimum of five derivative works using my copyrighted music on at least two albums he titled “Marcberg” (9 versions including CDs) and “Reloaded” (8 versions including CDs).
There are possibly others yet to be discovered. (Attachments 4,5)
The main derivative works Mr. Myer created utilizing my music and that I have been able to locate thus far are…
Thug’s Prayer
Thug’s Prayer Pt. 2
I Shot the King
I Shot the King (bonus cut)
Thug’s Prayer Instrumental
Attachment 6 is a listing of the derivatives Mr. Myer, or the other respondents involved in this claim registered with SoundExchange prior to my discovery of t | Erwin | none | Mass Appeal Records LLC, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0072 | infringement | Song was used in the 2019 film “The Aftermath” | Songs were expolited by synchronization usage in the film to enhance the value of the film without permisiion and or compensation to the author who wrote the lyrics to these songs. | Scott Douglas Ora, individually, and in his derivative capacity as trustee of the Leo Robin Trust, on behalf of the Leo Robin Trust | none | Warner Chappell Music | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0071 | infringement | Two photographs of Riley Perez. One of Riley Perez on a jet with a woman. One of Riley Perez in a boxing ring. | Representatives of TNT contacted Plaintiff asking him to be a part of their television series ( Rich & Shameless) as a subject and to allow for certain photographs to be licensed.
Plaintiff declined TNT request for an interview but allowed for the use of the cover of his book (What Is Real? (Rare Bird Books, 2018)). Plaintiff denied the use of the copyrighted photographs that were requested.
When the Rich & Shameless episode aired on 4/23/2022 on TNT and HBO Max, Plaintiff noticed that the TNT producers used his copyrighted work in their television show after having denied TNT a licensing right. | Riley-Perez | none | Turner Broadcasting Sysytems, Inc. | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0070 | infringement | The Joy of Juggling by Dave Finnigan doing business as Juggle Bug, Inc. - instructional juggling book | In 2010 I signed an agreement with Greg Boehm, then the President of Mud Puddle Books, to be paid a small fee of 10 cents for every copy of my copyrighted book, "The Joy of juggling," which he wanted to sell in juggling kits that he intended to market. I received a payment in 2011 of $3,497, and in 2012 I got $935.40 and in 2013 $809.60, but then the payments stopped. However I saw the books in their Mud Puddle packaging in stores all over the country. So I called and e-mailed Greg repeatedly and asked for an accounting, but he stone-walled me, probably knowing it would be too expensive for me to hire an attorney to sue him. However you can see that they are still selling the book and the kit although they sometimes misspell my name to Finnegan on the cover.
https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Juggling-Finnigan-Puddle-Books/dp/B00DJIVQNK
https://www.amazon.com/Mud-Puddle-Books-Inc-Juggling/dp/1603110194
https://poshmark.com/listing/The-Joy-of-Juggling-Book-Kit-5f5a6b7f1801362f3099c7db
Here is the latest correspondence with him where he acknowledges the issue and says he will be getting back to me, but he never has.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:50 PM Oliver Finnigan | Finnigan | none | Boehm, et al | Claim | |
| 22-CCB-0069 | infringement | A snake in the shape of a uterus | This person has been warned multiple times that this is my copyright protected art. They refuse to take it down off their Etsy store even though I provided Etsy with the copyright registration number and reported it for copyright infringement. | Lesniak | none | Tuttle | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0068 | infringement | It is a compilation video of my original video and musical works with my interactions with higher dimensional craft, beings and energie | The Corridor Crew, without my permission illegally used tiny snippets of my compilation video to ridicule me and my work to an audience of over a million viewers to date.
The video in question @ the 11 minute mark for 46 seconds:
https://youtu.be/CVjC1wfovz0
They purposely ignored the nearly twenty minutes of compelling evidence presented in my video and further called me an idiot, that I would be pissing my pants and various other derogatory terms while quickly dismissing me and my work to potentially their five plus million subscribers. To date this video has over 1.16 million views in four months.
My video that most of the story snippets were taken from:
https://youtu.be/IvBboLBw-qc
This compilation is the result of over ten years of dedicated work in this field. I have been on national television twice on CNN and the Travel Channel and am slated for a profile on the History Channel's The Proof Is Out There this fall.
The reckless and vicious comments and cherry picking of tiny segments of my original work had been devastating to me personally and has caused grace damage to my name and my YouTube channel.
I feel compensatory and punitive damages of $30,000 | Martin | none | Corridor Digital, LLC, dba. Corridor Crew | Order Denying Request to Link John Cl Martin with the John C Martin party |
| 22-CCB-0067 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Plaintiff") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Plaintiff was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 20, 2019 (the "Program") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Program in their commercial business without authorization from Plaintiff.
Defendants Fusion Groups, Inc., Maurntee Ttoe, and Cameron D. Williams (collectively the "Defendants") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Fusion Spice Bar located at 2801 Lancaster Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19805 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program.
Defendants Maurntee Ttoe and Cameron D. Williams are individuals who reside in the State of Delaware and were memb | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Fusion Groups, Inc., et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0066 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Plaintiff") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Plaintiff was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 20, 2019 (the "Program") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Program in their commercial business without authorization from Plaintiff.
Defendants Jesses Pizza LLC and Jose O. Hernandez (collectively the "Defendants") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Jesse’s Pizza located at 2997 Desert Street, Unit 4, Rosamond, CA 93560 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program.
Defendant Jose O. Hernandez is an individual who resides in the State of California and was a member, manager, officer and/or principal | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Jesses Pizza LLC, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0065 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Plaintiff") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Plaintiff was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 20, 2019 (the "Program") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Program in their commercial business without authorization from Plaintiff.
Defendants Cabo Tacos & Beer Inc., Mario M. Arce Jr., and Fernando Zarate Flores (collectively the "Defendants") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Cabo Wabo Grill located at 831 E. 8th Street, National City, CA 91950 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program.
Defendants Mario M. Arce Jr. and Fernando Zarate Flores are individuals who reside in the State of Califor | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Cabo Tacos & Beer Inc., et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0064 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Plaintiff") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Plaintiff was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 20, 2019 (the "Program") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Program in their commercial business without authorization from Plaintiff.
Defendants Dollar Hits Temple, Inc. and Elvira F. Chan (collectively the "Defendants") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Dollar Hits located at 2422 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program.
Defendant Elvira F. Chan is an individual who resides in the State of California and was a member, manager, officer and/or principal o | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Dollar Hits Temple, Inc., et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0063 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Plaintiff") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Plaintiff was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] to authorize the public exhibition of (1) the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 20, 2019 and (2) the UFC 240: Max Holloway vs. Frankie Edgar mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 27, 2019 (collectively the "Programs") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Program in their commercial business without authorization from Plaintiff.
Defendants Tiki Sports Lounge and Grill LLC, Maria E. Arevalo, and Naomi R. Henson (collectively the "Defendants") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Tiki Lounge located at 165 L | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Tiki Sports Lounge and Grill LLC, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0062 | infringement | Live Sports Pay-Per-View Program | Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. ("Plaintiff") is a Pennsylvania corporation that specializes in commercially licensing premier sporting events to commercial locations such as bars, restaurants, lounges, clubhouses and similar establishments.
By written agreement, Plaintiff was granted the exclusive right to license, display, and distribute publicly [17 U.S.C. § 106(4) & (5)] to authorize the public exhibition of (1) the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 20, 2019 and (2) the UFC 240: Max Holloway vs. Frankie Edgar mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 27, 2019 (collectively the "Programs") for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim. Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this suit were not authorized to receive and exhibit the Programs in their commercial business without authorization from Plaintiff.
Defendants Wolves Enterprise, LLC, Roberto F. Gonzalez, and Sal Vargas (collectively the "Defendants") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as La Barrita Bar located at 546 Grand Ave | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Wolves Enterprise LLC d/b/a La Barrita Bar, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0061 | infringement | hand painted and then digitally enhanced Red glitter Christmas Digital paper | Etsy is continuously criminally culpable in allowing infringement to occur on their platform and are aware of are aware of it, Evidence was provided to three other platforms the Creativemarket, HungryJpg and CreativeFabrica, market places and after an investigation was completed they removed the offenders shop for posting pirated content and infringing material on their platform.
Etsy refuses to remove the offender and offending content from their platform even after receiving numerous complaints of copyright infringement from various sellers for the offender, Etsy is allowing this shop owner to sell not only my copyrighted works but others as well.
Ive contacted etsy over a dozen times to no avail and no response.
Etsy then allowed this person to relist my content and retaliatory remove my shops content, and allowed the user to list myself my name and my address for sale as an item in her shop for $10 and as far as I know you cannot sell human beings.
Etsy also allowed this person to defame my character and write 1 star reviews of my content claiming that it was poor or not my own. The extent of the harassment's forced me to close my shop and to have to close perma | Salcedo | none | Etsy | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0060 | infringement | Circular, diamond vector background displaying multiple shades of blue, with the alias "Acerthorn" overlaying it. | There is a Twitch user who currently goes by the username jelmerve334. You can find his account by going to the URL of www.twitch.tv/jelmerv334.
On or around March 20, 2022, I noticed that he was using my copyrighted Channel Icon #6 as his channel icon without my authorization, and so on March 20, 2022, I issued a DMCA takedown to Twitch asking for it to be taken down. However, Twitch did not take the infringement down. They replied to my DMCA Takedown Notice and asked that I provide proof that I actually own the copyright to this icon.
This is not a valid request. 17 USC § 512(c)(3)(A)(i)-(vi) sets forth six things that a DMCA Takedown Notice must include. I included all six of these things and can easily provide proof thereof once this case gets underway. At no point does the DMCA require me to provide proof of copyright ownership when I issue a DMCA Takedown Notice. The law does not entitle the ISP to request additional details, other than those set forth in § 512(c)(3)(A)(i)-(vi), to verify an otherwise statutorily-compliant takedown notice.
It was not until May 10, 2022 that it was finally taken down. This means that Twitch allowed the act of infringement to continue | Stebbins | none | Twitch Interactive, Inc. | Amended Claim |
| 22-CCB-0059 | infringement | The sound recording and underlying composition "Boxed-Up Memories" by Kerry Muzzey, copyright owned by Kirbyko Music LLC | 1) The sound recording and underlying composition "Boxed-Up Memories" were used as underscore in a motion picture posted to the "Online Cinema" YouTube channel.
2) I o/b/o Kirbyko Music LLC issued a takedown on the unlicensed music use via Content ID.
3) Mr. Chen filed a false counter-notification with YouTube, under penalty of perjury, in order to release the legitimate strike, which causes monetization on his YouTube channel to be turned off. This is a common tactic by ex-US YouTube streamers because they know that reaching them with litigation is nearly impossible.
4) I emailed Mr. Chen directly asking him to remove his false counter-notification. He has not replied.
5) per the DMCA I now have only a few days' time in which to file a suit against the false counter-notification.
6) I do not know the original date of infringement as I believe this film (created in China) has existed for some time, and now this YouTube channel has acquired the streaming rights to it. However, the underlying musical score - my work "Boxed-Up Memories" - is unlicensed and is the commercial copyright infringement at issue here.
6) Mr. Chen wrote the following to YouTube in order to expedite the | Kirbyko Music LLC | none | Chen | Order Denying Request to Link Kerry Muzzey with the Kirbyko Music LLC party |
| 22-CCB-0058 | infringement | sound recording embodying the following copyright controlled compositions by Michelle Shocked: 1. Five AM in Amsterdam 2. The Secret Admirer 3. The Incomplete Image 4. Who Cares Down on Thomas St. 5. Fogtown 6. Steppin Out 7. The Hep Cat 8. Necktie 9. (Don't You Mess Around with) My Little Sister 10. The Ballad of Patch Eye and Meg 11. The Secret to a Long Life (Is Knowing When It's Time to Go) | unauthorized distribution of a counterfeit product on an online third-party marketplace, advertised as "used." The listing includes unlicensed distribution of claimant's registered copyright Works (11), unauthorized display of the copyright protected artwork, as well as unauthorized use of claimant's registered mark, "Michelle Shocked," as well as unauthorized use of claimant's registered mark as a search keyword. | Shocked | none | Billington | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0057 | infringement | Portrait of male with glasses | The infringer displayed this image on their website inferring that it was a portrait of a past client giving a testimonial. | Hursey | none | Vignola | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0056 | infringement | Photograph of Family having a picnic | The Image was used without authorization or license to advertise a product on the infringers website. | Hursey | none | Lavaca LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0055 | infringement-DMCA--noninfringement | A novel about how Christians and sinners come together to seek out God for all their trials and tribulations. | My manuscript entitled, "From the Greenleaf to Greener Pastures, somehow ended in the possession of the infringers, OwnTV Network, in which substantial and in certain parts, identical information from my manuscript was copied and used by the television network. It could have been the direct result of the publishers who had copyright access to my manuscript and sent to the copyright office in 2005. After I sent to the copyright office in 2003. The publishers was New Age World Publishing Inc. | Day | none | U. S. CopRecords Research and Certification Office of Copyright Records U.S. Copyright Office | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 22-CCB-0054 | infringement | Mind maps for students to learn content to take exams. | The owner of the website is selling pirate copies of my product without my consent and ilegally using my brand's name without autorization for his own benefit, harming my business. My original work is sold only on my website: https://mapasdalulu.com.br/ and I also advertise it through Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mapasdalulu/. | Mapas da Lulu Comercio de Ebooks Ltda | none | Pirata Digital | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0053 | infringement | Book of Narrative Nonfiction | The scrip writers used many scenes drawn from my book, Recounting the Anthrax Attacks. They used the timing and interpretation of scenes as interpreted by me. | Decker | none | Souders, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0052 | infringement | Mr Shellenberger and his wife sitting on couch | Mr Shellenberger has used my copyrighted works on his business and political websites without copyright notice/credit. He has also used my images on his social media pages without copyright notice/credit. He has altered the images, distributed the images freely from his website, and used them for campaign ads (commercial use). His license to use these images expired in 2/2020 but he continued to use the images without requesting an extension of the license. When I reached out to Mr Shellenberger to request that he renew the license he refused. He has ignored my requests to remove the images and continues to offer them as downloads from his website. At least one of my images was being used to make t-shirts for Mr Shellenberger's campaign. | Harber | none | Shellenberger | Waiver of Service |
| 22-CCB-0051 | infringement | I'm from Malaysia. Copyright need not be registered (https://www.kass.com.my/copyright/#:~:text=Unlike%20trademarks%2C%20designs%20and,creator%20of%20the%20work%20automatically.) The nature of my work is a fiction (shifter romance) novel that has been broken up into 199 chapters on the infringing sites. I've only licensed this work to certain pay-to-read platforms, namely GoodNovel, iReader, MoboReader, NovelCat, Popink, Noveltells, VolcanoEbook, and FishNovel, all of which are companies, not individuals. And these authorized companies charge a fee to readers for access to the material in question. The respondents and I did not sign any contract. Both respondents are not authorized to use my work. | The infringing sites have taken my book that I've licensed to other platforms and put it in public for free. Once a person types the title of my book and add the word "free", the respondents' sites become visible. The download steps are easy and they are all pdf documents. | Wong | none | Obasi, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0050 | infringement | 2D fairy wing design | My photos of my fairy wings creations were used without permission and reproduced as stickers in a booklet that SHEIN is selling on their website.
A friend recognized one of them and messaged me to ask if it was my photo, and indeed it was my photo from my Titania Painted Fairy Wings Etsy listing, the copper / rose gold colored one as seen here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/171521829/titania-iridescent-fairy-wings-with?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details.
She sent me the listing (1st url provided above in previous section) and there I could see small thumbnail photos, of my Titania wings and also my green painted Teasel Fairy Wings.
I'll call that one Sticker Book A.
The photo of my Teasel Fairy Wings design can be seen in my old Etsy listing here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/60733733/teasel-iridescent-fairy-wings-with
They're selling those sticker booklets containing my Titania and Teasel fairy wing photos for $2, described as '50pcs Scenery Pattern Random Material Paper'.
So far it has 1773 customer reviews, indicating at least that many purchases.
I then found another sticker book listing containing the same Teasel Fairy Wings photo that is in the firs | Jarman | none | SHEIN Distribution Corporation | Waiver of Service |
| 22-CCB-0049 | infringement-DMCA- | Sound recording from a anime..RZA disappeared with the masters. | We recorded two songs at 47th and 7th Street in Manhattan. RZA said we was going make 5,000 a song. He ended up disappearing with those songs, released them and my family died. Oliver Grant said he had this big meeting. I guess with the CIA or Fbi | Valentine Shabazz | none | Diggs | Order Suspending Account |
| 22-CCB-0048 | infringement-DMCA- | Forever I Love America is recorded material for the Forever I love America OTT network and communications firm that signed Courtney Salter aka Ari Lennox | We working on our products and production and walked to the store. We ran into Brian Jones, a affiliation of Naheem Bowens and Andy Hilfiger. We spoke about the show he was filming and I told him we had a similar show. He said the girl name is Ari and the show is called Impact. I said we have sound recordings and a show called Forever I Love America with Ari. We spoke about 55 million. He introduced me to Gennifer Garner, a exec at eone. We spoke and exchanged numbers. We did a DNA test and than we kept having issues. A contract was pushed in front of me and we thought it was a clearance, not a deal. We also were induced from the Covid 19 test which we passed. It made us dizzy. Me and Gennifer spoke via text a few times to work this out and she stop responding. Brian called me a terrorist. | 47th and 7th LLC, et al | none | Entertainment One, et al | Order Suspending Account |
| 22-CCB-0047 | infringement | Artwork of cartoon character headshots drawings drawn by me. This work is not allowed for reproduction and the creation of product by unauthorized users. | Reproduction of artwork and distribution in the form of charms with no authorization. They are publicly displaying it on their Etsy and Ebay page without permission. | Pham | none | Harris | Order Granting Request to Amend |
| 22-CCB-0046 | infringement | Photographic image | Claimant Mary Oakes is a professional portrait photographer. Claimant is the author and sole rights holder to one photograph ("Abby Image") and one marketing flyer ("Michalea Ad Image").
In late 2021, Claimant discovered that the Abby Image had been incorporated into a number of marketing materials for Respondent Heart of Gold and posted to its website www,usaheartofgold.com.
Claimant also discovered that her Michalea Ad Image had been incorporated into a video posted on the Heart of Gold Facebook page, and on a video uploaded to the Youtube Channel operated by Respondent Heart of Gold. Claimant also discovered that her Michalea Ad Image had been incorporated into marketing materials for Respondent Heart of Gold and uploaded to the Facebook page for Respondent Jameson.
Claimant did not grant a license or permission to use her works in this manner.
Claimant is informed and believes that Respondent Jameson is responsible for creating and uploading the infringing materials.
Claimant, through counsel, attempted to resolve the matter prior to filing this claim. Respondent Jameson email Claimaint directly and stated that she had a "team of attorneys" waiting to represent | Oaks | Higbee & Associates | Heart of Gold Pageant System Inc., et al | Waiver of Service - Angel Jameson |
| 22-CCB-0045 | infringement | aerial photograph of building | Display of infringed work on website | Oppenheimer | L/O Lawrence G Townsene | Prutton | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0044 | infringement | Live TV broadcast of Sky Sports channel. | They are showing Sky Sports live broadcast through their mobile applications on Google Play Store without the permission of our client Sky Group. | Copyrights Protection | none | HA Sports Studio | Request to Link Haris Ahmed with the HA Sports Studio party |
| 22-CCB-0043 | infringement | musical composition, words and music | non-compliant compulsory mechanical streaming license | Shocked | none | Tunecore, Inc | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0042 | infringement | Motion Picture | On May 1, 2021 and possibly at other times and dates otherwise, Respondent reproduced, transmitted, and showed to Respondent's subscribers Claimant's Oscar-shortlisted, duly-registered, motion picture without obtaining permission from Claimant or paying for a license. | Myfilms (dba Mayfilms) | Law Office of Julian Lowenfeld | Matvil, Inc. d/b/a etv.net | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0041 | infringement | Documentary | On Thursday September 30th I, John Davis, CEO of RealToonTv Productions & Entertainment LLC gave Larry Smiley- El also known by the alias “Siyf Smiley,” the files to my documentary, MurdaWorth “The Story of How Gangs came to Texas” (which contains my image, likeness, and copyrighted intellectual property) in order to clean the sound, which he told me was his speciality after I had interviewed him.
On October 7th I was informed that Larry Smiley was finished editing the files and was subsequently paid for the services rendered; However I never received my files. Some time after that Siyf quit returning my calls.
On October 7th I sent Brian Hall a copy of the rough draft that syfe had completed, so that he knew what was going on with the project and for feed back.
On October 11th Larry Smiley sent a request for permission to view a second project that I was working on through google drive; the only other person to have been given access to view the project was Brian Hall also known by the alias Bob MCGRIFF (Supreme). When questioned about the odd request Syfe came up with an elaborate story of how a hacker hacked his gmail account some time ago and sometimes sends emai | RealToonTV Productions & Entertainment LLC | none | Smiley, et al | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0040 | infringement | Standard Character Mark | GGL Projects, Inc. publishes Sitejabber.com a public website where its users can openly submit content. GGL Projects, Inc is buffered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, this protection, however, does not give them latitude to use a competitors trademarked term to unfairly compete and be unjustly enriched.
Sitejabber.com contains a webpage that uses Relevant Ads trademarked term: "Local Splash".
Relevant Ads and GGL Projects, Inc. are business competitors that offer the same, or very similar, business services.
GGL Projects, Inc. is using Relevant Ads' trademarked term in a matter that simultaneously damages Relevant Ads as well as enriches their Sitejabber property and which they profit from sales.
Sitejabber.com is causing their webpage to be promoted and found by search engines, including Google and Bing, using the “Local Splash” trademarked term.
Sitejabber.com sells a “paid plan” that is the same or very similar services that compete with the services that Relevant Ads provides its Local Splash customers. | Relevant Ads, Inc. | none | GGL Projects, Inc | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0039 | infringement-DMCA- | Forever I Love America is recorded material for the Forever I love America OTT network and communications firm | Chris Bruce and Yusef Ali recorded Forever I Love America on the U47 microphone in November of 2019. After Shyneika Taylor spent a whole night at the location working on a TMZ segment and Mitchell and Ness deal, Chris installed streaming and communications equipment with Why Fly Internet. Cameras were installed as well. After a argument ensued, Chris Bruce building manager Jamie Paglie admitted they used cat 6 equipment. He admitted harm to Danny vocal production and OTT network. We had to go through a series of legal proceedings to get out copyright filed to get him removed from the building. The building was not up to code and a NDA was breached with Chris Bruce name on it. | Valentine Shabazz | none | Bruce | Order Suspending Account |
| 22-CCB-0038 | infringement | 7 inch vinyl record | Jay Rowe used "Stop Sign's" musical composition to make his song "Side Stepping" without my permission with the feel of the groove which can be heard throughout the song. | White | none | Rowe | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0037 | infringement | 2D artwork of fantasy character | The Respondent sold Halloween masks and Halloween costumes based on the artwork. The Respondent was not licensed. | Wood | Ray Wood, Attorney at Law | Spirit Halloween Superstores LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0036 | infringement | Photograph of Actress/Model/Tv Host Cindy Taylor | The infringement involves a wholly unauthorized photo print of Cindy Taylor that was posted, publicly displayed, disturbuted and offered for sale on ebay.com as item 233857273682 by the infringer using the seller id 807miami. | Rosen | none | Claren | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0035 | -DMCA- | NA | NA | Flores | none | Mitrakos | Waiver of Service |
| 22-CCB-0034 | infringement | None given | Hello Respected Team,
We are legal partner of Sky Group (“Sky Sports”) to protect their intellectual property rights which includes the rights to broadcast live audio-visual coverage of various properties licensed to Sky Sports, for the entire world (“Licensed Properties”). Sky Sports holds broadcasting rights for Australia vs Sri Lanka T20 Cricket Matches (AUS vs SL T20). These rights includes, without limitation, the TV live broadcast rights, the TV highlights rights, mobile rights and internet rights for live, deferred, delayed broadcasts and highlights for all matches relating to the Licensed Properties on television and on the internet (“Exclusive Rights”).
As an authorized agent we are entitled to enforce these rights which have been licensed to Sky Sports. The mobile applications being made available through the URLs below are making available footage from the Licensed Properties (“AUS vs SL T20”). To our knowledge, the developer's use of the footage in the mobile applications has not been licensed by the rights owner and therefore violates the Exclusive Rights granted to Sky Sports. Accordingly, we request that you remove the infringing mobile applications from google p | Copyright Brand Protection Pvt. Ltd | none | HA Sports Studio | Request to Link Arslan Ahmad with the Copyright Brand Protection Pvt. Ltd party |
| 22-CCB-0033 | infringement | A one-hour pilot for a fashion television series | On Friday, May 1, 2015, I answered an ad on Craigslist with the headline: “Narrative Script Needed ASAP.” The description said an experienced documentary producer was seeking a writer for an hour biography/documentary show. I sent a resume in response. (I worked at E! Entertainment Television on the non-fiction series “Celebrity Profile” and “True Hollywood Story,” and had written several award show red carpet scripts for TV Guide Network.)
I heard back quickly from the producer, Tara Pirnia. She needed a short turnaround on a script for a show about the fashion evolution of Kate Middleton. When I quoted a price of $1000, she talked me into lowering it by half to $500, saying that it was the pilot for a series and she would pay me more for the next script. I agreed.
She sent me a rough outline that included bullet points for each segment, divided up into nine blocks plus a cold open. After researching and writing the script, I submitted my first draft with my original title “Kate Middleton: Duchess of Style.” Tara praised my work in subsequent emails. She seemed pleased with my writing. I stayed in touch with Tara during the revision process, and she gave me additional note | Barton | none | Pirnia | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0032 | infringement | Three Dimensional Jewelry Charm | Copying and producing, advertising,distributing and selling my copyrighted designs, Selling my designs thru their website, in person sales at their business location, and offering for sale, copies of my original design at major trade shows throughout the USA. | SAPA | none | PUKA CREATIONS LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0031 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Steven Hirsch is a photojournalist based in New York City. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to two photographs of disgraced Columbia gynecologist, Robert Hadden, who was indicted for sexually assaulting his female patients for more than two decades.
Respondent is the owner and operator of the website www.scdaily.com which is a Chinese-language editorial website. On information and belief, Respondent monetizes its website through paid advertising.
On or about February 2020, Claimant discovered that two of his photographs were being displayed on Respondent's website in an editorial article. Claimant never licensed the photographs to Respondent or otherwise granted Respondent permission to use his photographs. | Hirsch | Higbee & Associates | Southern Chinese Daily News, LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0030 | -DMCA- | NA | NA | Wild | none | Calkin | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0029 | infringement | One (1) photograph from the Greenacre group registration depicting Paul Simon's Greenacre estate at night. | In 2019, Claimant was commissioned by William Pitt and Sotheby’s to photograph Paul Simon's “Greenacre” estate under a limited, nonexclusive license for the sole purpose of Sotheby’s own advertising, on its own website and social media, of the listing for Greenacre, plus one limited use in the Wall Street Journal.
Without permission, Respondent reproduced and publicly displayed at least one (1) of the Greenacre photographs (the “Photograph”) in the attached Ultimate Classic Rock article, dated April 29, 2019. Claimant never authorized Respondent to use the Photograph for any purpose whatsoever. In addition, Respondent falsely attributed the copyright in the Photograph to “William Pitt,” which is a violation of the DMCA Section 1202. | Lane Coder Photography, LLC | Leichtman Law PLLC | Townsquare Media, Inc. | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0028 | infringement | None given | Respondent produced, distributed and licensed Johnny Winter derivative recording of "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" in the 1984, 1991, 1992, 2011, 2016 and 2018 Johhny Winter "Guitar Slinger" CD, LP and DPD album(s), crediting Cervalin Music as the publisher.
Additionally, the respondent reissued the derivative recording in the 2001 Johnny Winter "Deluxe Edition" CD and DPD albums, crediting the composition renewed on 12/26/1990 with the Copyright Office as RE0000558123 in the "Public Domain". | Chervalin Publishing Company | none | Alligator Records | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0027 | infringement | A LOVE SONG | In 1965, respondent John M. Hill brought the Claimant two Susan-Christie demonstration [dubs] “No One Can Hear You Cry” & *When Love Comes [I] knew, they were potential hits for my Chanté Record Label. *Forty years later they were included as the final two [Chanté-Soundtracks]***Paint A Lady Album*** had earned much critical praise (i.e. Industry Awards for New Albums) see:
https://www.wikiwand.com> "They had earned much critical praise i.e. Industry Awards for New Albums. | ALFIERI | none | HILL | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0026 | infringement | Photograph is an image of a coastline with earth, water, and clouds | Quinn posted the photograph to Pinterest in support of her d/b/a, "Quinnspiration," which is dedicated to dispensing advice on: "health and wellness, self-esteem, life transitions, stress management, effective communication, and healthy relationship building." | Graf | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Quinn | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0025 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant is a professional photographer. Claimant is the owner and sole rights holder to a real estate photograph. On or about April 2022, Claimant discovered his real estate photograph being displayed on multiple pages of Respondent's website with his permission. Between April 2022 and early June 2022, Claimant's attorneys corresponded with Respondent's legal representation regarding the infringement. However, as of June 4, 2022, Claimant's real estate photograph had still not been removed from Respondent's website. The parties were unable to reach a resolution and ceased communication on or about June 10, 2022, after which the photograph was apparently removed from the website. | Naschinski | Higbee & Associates | Circa Group, LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0024 | infringement | None given | Butter Lutz Interiors reproduced and publicly displayed the works on its website beginning in October 2013 without having first secured the permission of the author of the works to do so. The photographs were commissioned by publications such as Architectural Digest and Elle Decor; the author, Björn Wallander, is represented exclusively by Claimant, OTTO Archive, LLC, for the licensing of his photographs. Upon its discovery of the infringement in late 2021, Claimant conducted a thorough search of its records and consulted with the author, determining that permission had never been granted to Butter Lutz Interiors for its use of the works, nor had a license fee been paid by them. | OTTO Archive LLC | Peppercorn Partners LLC | Butter Lutz Interiors, LLC | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0023 | infringement-DMCA- | PhD's video interview | the use the audio of my interview and these individual mixed with other material | Jaramillo | none | Apple Inc. | Claim |
| 22-CCB-0022 | infringement | Picture of the Langley Covered Bridge from a drone. | It has come to my attention that your company Green Line Media, LLC designed the website for Francoy’s Resort, L.L.C (hereafter “Francoy’s) under its website Francoysresort.com (hereafter “website”) have made unauthorized use of my copyrighted work entitled “Langley Covered Bridge from above (hereafter the “Work”) (Exhibit 1). I have reserved all rights in the Work, which was first published on September 13, 2016. I have registered the image with US Copyright office. (Exhibit 2) I uploaded this work to Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License (hereafter “Share Alike License”). , Under this license I allow anyone to use my work provided two conditions are met:
1. “Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any what that suggests the licensor (myself) endorse you or your use.
2. Share Alike-If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.”
Francoy’s website for 30 Things to do in Southwest Michigan, number 22: Visit the Cove | Goodrich | Lighthouse Litigation PLLC | Green Line Media, et al | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 22-CCB-0021 | infringement-DMCA- | It was a video interview for my PhD | These individuals has taken and alter parts of my work and they had even made a photomontage imitate me and ridicule me. They had used my material to intimidate me and I even received death threats | Jaramillo | none | YouTube | Corrected Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 22-CCB-0020 | infringement-DMCA- | None given | Infringing products sold by respondent contain Mr. Wright's artwork as the central feature. Respondent sold the product as a digital file that the purchasers can freely use, resell, redistribute, etc. | Wright | Axenfeld Law Group, LLC | Potter | Waiver of Service |
| 22-CCB-0019 | infringement | Voice memo recorded into Iphone that was meant for the hook of the song. | Infringement upon the delivery of the song, the thematic material, and lyrics. | Palmer | none | Columbia Records | Amended Claim |
| 22-CCB-0018 | infringement | A black Great Dane spinning around facing the camera in a tan leather chair with the caption "The Dog Father" | Zesty Paws illegally downloaded my short motion picture and used it on their social account without my permission. | Giardina | none | Zesty Paws, et al | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0017 | infringement | Photograph | Defendant reproduced, displayed, and distributed Plaintiff's copyrighted photograph without her consent on its commercial website and continued to do so after she provided notice of the infringement. | Lixenberg | Doniger / Burroughs | Hypebeast, Ltd. | Waiver of Service |
| 22-CCB-0016 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 22-CCB-0015 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | Amended Claim |
| 22-CCB-0014 | infringement | Pictorial and graphic features identified separately from and capable of existing independently of the utilitarian aspects of a useful article. | As set forth above, the Dolls Kill Copyrights are valid and owned by Dolls Kill, and have been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Defendant, without the permission or consent of Dolls Kill, has designed, manufactured, produced, distributed, marketed, promoted, offered for sale and sold the infringing Materials which is identical and/or substantially similar to the Dolls Kill Copyrights. Specifically, The website located at https://www.anotherchill.com/ ("Defendant") contains works that infringe upon Dolls Kill’s Copyrighted photos and designs ("Copyrighted Material").
Dolls Kill sent a first takedown notice per the Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") to Defendant's service provider on January 31, 2022. The work was removed but more infringing content was discovered in April 2022. Dolls Kill sent another takedown notice and the work was allegedly removed from Defendant's website.
On June 15, 2022 Dolls Kill discovered several additional copies on Defendant's websites. It thus appears that Defendant willfully and repetitively infringes upon Dolls Kill's rights, despite Dolls Kill's efforts to resolve this issue without court intervention. | Dolls Kill, Inc. | none | Another Chill | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0013 | infringement | A historical fiction/ fantasy work published in the juvenile fiction categories under the imprint "Pacific Books" | Copies of this work were produced, distributed, and sold prior to publication, including manuscript/drafts of this work that were not released to the public. Formal letters to cease and desist unlawful distribution were knowingly ignored and unacted upon. | Tactical Training Academy LLC, DBA Pacific Books | none | Ingram Content Group, Lightning Source LLC | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0012 | infringement | Instructions and paper prompts for an essay that students were required to write in a university course that I teach. | EssayZoo markets itself to college students and describes itself as "the Most Reliable Place to Buy Pre Written Essays" (essayzoo.org, accessed 6/16/22). Between 5/8/21 and 3/21/22, a subpage on essayzoo.org publicly displayed the instructions provided to EssayZoo by a past customer. Those instructions provided to EssayZoo by the customer included material for which I own the copyright, namely, instructions and paper prompts for an essay that students are required to write in a course that I teach.
This claim is not being brought against EssayZoo due to their storage of or referral or linking to infringing material posted by others. The infringing material was not posted directly by the customer in this case. Instead, that material was submitted by the customer to EssayZoo through fillable forms available on the latter's website, as part of the process by which the customer ordered written work from EssayZoo, and EssayZoo later posted the customer's instructions along with (1) a preview of the work produced for the customer, and (2) an option to download the entire work for $4.32.
In addition, even if this claim were being brought against EssayZoo due to their storage of or r | Bronner | none | EssayZoo | Bronner affidavit, service by publication_Redacted |
| 22-CCB-0011 | infringement | Four Photographs of The Residences at 66 High Street in Guilford, CT | See supplementary material | Carbo | Higbee & Associates | Luchs Consulting Engineers, LLC | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 22-CCB-0010 | infringement | 2D fairy wing design | My own photos of my design were used in image edits and displayed on 11:11 Digital / Paris Hilton's social media accounts without my permission.
The same IP, Titania Fairy Wings, has actually been infringed 3 different times by Paris Hilton / 11:11 Digital.
The first time I became aware of one on Instagram, I sent a DMCA notice to Paris' company, at management@parishiltonentertainment.com on 9/17/2020 for the Sept. 2020 infringement, as that was the one I became aware of first, requesting removal of the infringing work from Paris' Instagram account. I received no response, but it was removed roughly a week later after gaining over at least 800,000 views.
That content used the wing image directly from my listing graphic for the digital overlays I sell for the purpose of photo editing, seen in my store here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/products/titania-fairy-wings-transparency-stock-png-files
An error is showing for the documents I'm trying to attach which show how my work was used, but you can see more details in a blog post I made about it here: https://www.fancyfairy.com/news/2020/9/17/infringement-is-not-hot-paris-hilton
The 2nd time I noticed an infrin | Jarman | none | 11:11 Digital | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0009 | infringement | Sound recording | A single entitled, “Def Mix” recorded by Ondamike and released by Ravesta Records which interpolates DM’s track, “Techno Bass (Eurobass Mix)" performed by BASS 305. DM Records, Inc. (DM) is the sole and exclusive owner of the copyright to the master recording and music composition. In direct and willful contravention of DM’s exclusive rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq., and in particular those enumerated in 17 U.S.C. Section 106, Ravestra is infringing on DM’s rights by sampling and reproducing the above-listed song. | DM Records, Inc. | none | RAVESTA, LLC | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0008 | infringement | Photographs taken of a trip down the Mississippi River for the upcoming book by author RINKER BUCK. The book will be released August 9 through Simon & Schuster. I was brought along as the photographer. I own all content | The owner of this offending website, Scott Mandrell, has stolen content for his website. The images where all taken by me and are part of a book project soon to be published by Simon and Schuster. The book is on the history of the great American rivers specifically the Flatboat era to the present written by RINKER BUCK. Mr. Buck is a longtime associate. Rinker Buck is a New York Times best-selling author of several books. I was along on the trip as the official photographer among other duties. We build a replica 18 century Flatboat and sailed it from Elizabeth Pennsylvania to New Orleans in the summer of 2016 to prepare to write the history. Mr. Mandrell was on our replica boat for a bit. He was thrown off after erratic, racist and violent behavior at the very beginning of the trip. He took the images from the official website for the project. I texted him and asked him politely to remove them and he refused and threatened me. I then sent him two registered emails asking him to take down the contact. . He is doing this simply to undermine the value of the images for the book. I am the copyright holder and the photographer who took them. I spent 20 years as a photojournalist at the | Corjulo | none | Mandrell | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0007 | infringement | Photograph of Local Politician regarding Environmental Activism | Respondent reproduced, displayed, and distributed unauthorized copies of Claimant’s Groby Photograph on its website, thehayride.com. Respondent reproduced, displayed, and distributed unauthorized copies of Claimant’s Flooding Photograph on its website, thehayride.com, and additionally created an unauthorized derivative work by superimposing the text “Everyday I’m Hustlin’” over the Flooding Photograph and otherwise altering that Photograph.
In addition, despite the presence of Claimant’s authorship credit when the photographs were first published on two separate authorized third-party websites, in each case with authorship credits indicating Julie Dermansky as the author, Respondent omitted Claimant’s name from the infringing articles, inducing, facilitating, and encouraging further downstream infringement.
Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photographs. | Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Hayride Media, LLC | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0006 | infringement | Painting | Petitioner was commissioned by a company called NINE Dot Arts, which advertises itself as an art consultant and art curator, to have the Copyrighted Work reproduced and affixed upon the walls of a parking garage located at 410 17th Street in Denver, Colorado. Respondent has numerous multimedia initiatives, including the magazine publication of Graphics Pro. In or around May 2021, Respondent exploited the Copyrighted Work by unlawfully reproducing and distributing a copy of it in its magazine, Graphics Pro. Further, Respondent unlawfully reproduced and distributed photographs of the Copyrighted Work on its social media platforms in order to promote an upcoming exposition it was hosting. These unlawful and repeated displays of Petitioner’s Copyrighted Work were done without Petitioner’s permission or knowledge, resulting in potential lost sales and future marketing of the Copyrighted Work. | Kauffman | Howard O. Bernstein, P.C. | National Business Media, Inc. | Proof of Service on National Business Media, Inc. |
| 22-CCB-0005 | infringement | Photograph of Exxon oil refinery. | Respondent, through its Healing Properties’ website, reproduced, displayed, and distributed unauthorized copies of Claimant’s Photograph on healingproperties.org. In addition, despite the presence of Claimant’s authorship credit when the photograph was first published on an authorized third-party website, with an authorship credit indicating Julie Dermansky as the author, Respondent omitted Claimant’s name from the infringing article, inducing, facilitating, and encouraging further downstream infringement.
Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph. | Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Rule 62, Inc. | Service Packet |
| 22-CCB-0004 | infringement | BLACK & WHITE PORTRAIT OF MILES DAVIS WITH FINGER TO LIPS | RESPONDENTS REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, DISPLAYED AND ALTERED THE WORKS ON RESPONDENTS' WEBSITES, AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUDING FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM OPEN TABLE YELP AND OTHER PLATFORMS, EXPLOITING THE WORKS FOR COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING PURPOSES AND FOR BRANDING PURPOSES | SEDLIK | none | CULINARY INVESTMENTS, LLC, et al | Proof of Service - John Prepolec |
| 22-CCB-0003 | infringement | Photograph of Herman Cain at political rally | Respondent reproduced, displayed, and distributed unauthorized copies of Claimant’s Photograph on its website, wrcbtv.com. In addition, Claimant believes that WRCB-TV, which is an NBC Television affiliate, obtained the Photograph from some other entity within the NBC family of companies, which had many years earlier licensed the Photograph from Corbis/Getty Images. That license expired before WRCB-TV’s use and required the crediting of Claimant in connection with the license. Therefore, at the time of Respondent’s reproduction, display, and distribution of the Photograph on its website, Claimant had not granted Respondent any license or permission to reproduce, publicly display, or otherwise use the Photograph for any purpose. Further, Respondent omitted Claimant’s name from the infringing article, despite the expired license requiring authorship credit, therefore, inducing, facilitating, and encouraging further downstream infringement.
Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph. | Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. | Waiver of Service |
| 22-CCB-0002 | infringement | Painting | Petitioner was commissioned by a company called NINE Dot Arts, which advertises itself as an art consultant and art curator, to have the Copyrighted Work reproduced and affixed upon the walls of a parking garage located at 410 17th Street in Denver, Colorado. Respondents operate a print shop in Denver, Colorado that creates custom vinyl prints and offers large format printing and design services. After commissioning the project from Petitioner, NINE Dot Arts independently hired Respondents to reproduce and install the Copyrighted Work onto the parking garage. Respondents did not have any relationship or contract with Petitioner. Respondents completed the installation of the Copyrighted Work for NINE Dot Arts on the parking garage on or around July 17, 2020. After the Copyrighted Work was installed on the parking garage, Respondents began to repeatedly use and share the Copyrighted Work for its own commercial purposes without notice to or authorization from Petitioner. Respondents have exploited the Copyrighted Work by publicly displaying it on their website without authorized use, using the Copyrighted Work to promote their personal services, and passing off the Copyrighted Work as | Kauffman | Howard O. Bernstein, P.C. | AAS Printing Inc. d/b/a Ink Monster, et al | Proof of Serviceon Ink Monstr LLC |
| 22-CCB-0001 | infringement | Photograph of Donald Trump at political rally | Respondent reproduced, displayed, and distributed unauthorized copies of Claimant’s Photograph on yellowhammernews.com in three separate articles. In addition, despite the presence of Claimant’s authorship credit when the photograph was first published by Claimant, with a copyright notice indicating Julie Dermansky as the rightsholder, in some places Respondent omitted Claimant’s name and copyright notice from the infringing articles, and in other places Respondent attributed the Photograph falsely to another photographer, inducing, facilitating, and encouraging further downstream infringement.
Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph. | Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Yellowhammer Multimedia, LLC | Waiver of Service |