Run date: 2023-12-22
| Case | Claim type | Description of Work | Description of Infringement (Truncated at 1200 characters if longer) | Description of harm suffered and relief sought (Truncated at 1200) | Status | Claimant | Claimant Law Firm | Respondent | Most recent filing |
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| 23-CCB-0413 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | No claim certified, no orders to amend | See caption/docket | Not available | See caption/docket | None |
| 23-CCB-0412 | infringement | Group registration of published photographs | Claimant Urbanlip.com LTD is a London based imaging company specializing in health and beauty images. Respondent is the owner and operator of the website www.vinasalon.com which is a commercial website that promotes and advertises Respondent’s hair salon business. On or about September 2022, Claimant discovered their photograph being displayed on Respondent's website, specifically, the photograph was displayed on the home page of the website and was the first thing users saw when they visited Respondent’s website. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Urbanlip.com Ltd. | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Vina Salon LLC | Claim |
| 23-CCB-0411 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | No claim certified, no orders to amend | See caption/docket | Not available | See caption/docket | None |
| 23-CCB-0410 | -DMCA | NA | NA | As a victim of unauthorized online harassment, bullying, and cyberstalking, I have endured significant emotional, psychological, and reputational harm. The unauthorized posting of a video containing my copyrighted material without my consent has resulted in a profound invasion of my privacy. This violation has led to a cascade of detrimental effects, including: Emotional Trauma: I have experienced intense feelings of fear, anxiety, and vulnerability, which have been persistent and debilitating. The constant worry about further exposure and harassment has severely impacted my daily life. Privacy Violation: The non-consensual use and dissemination of my video have left me feeling exposed and powerless. This invasion of my personal space and rights has been a source of ongoing distress. Reputational Harm: The widespread availability of this video online has damaged my reputation, both personally and professionally. This has led to embarrassment and potential long-term consequences for my career and social relationships. Psychological Stress: The situation has significantly strained my mental health, necessitating the need for professional counseling. I have had to invest t | No claim certified, no orders to amend | HAZAEL J DOMINGUEZ | none | ASHLEY C BURBACH | Claim |
| 23-CCB-0409 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Awaiting amendment/certification | Small Island Boutique Ltd (Silver Rain Silver) | none | Etsy | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0408 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | No claim certified, no orders to amend | See caption/docket | Not available | See caption/docket | None |
| 23-CCB-0407 | infringement | None given | Using our 4 (four) copyrighted characters without our authorisation. | Selling a paid subscription in their app that utilises the above 4 characters. This developer does not have any rights to use them. Earlier Google removed his app, but he filed an appeal and Google granted it | Awaiting amendment/certification | Serhii Osadchyi | none | Ilia Mazur | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0406 | infringement | Computer program for financial data encryption | I have thoroughly examined the products, technology, and services offered by Apple, and it has come to my attention that there are resemblances, both in terms of design and functionality, that bear a striking resemblance to my own intellectual properties. As an individual who takes great pride in my work and the originality of my creations, I am deeply concerned about this matter. As the owner, originator, creator, and designer of certain proprietary trade secrets, the Copyright Act provides protection for original works of authorship, including software code, computer programs, databases, and digital content. The Patent Act grants inventors exclusive rights to their inventions and covers technological innovations, processes, machines, compositions of matter, and design patents. I, Jesseca Hussain, Ar., did not grant the exclusive rights to make, use, sell, or import my invention or any derivative thereof for any limited period or extended period to the Apple Inc. Thusly, Apple Inc. is prohibited from using the patented invention without the my permission. The specific intellectual properties in question are the industrial design, trade secrets, and but not limited to | There have been several negative consequences and causes of various forms of suffering that I have endured since the copyright infringement of my product occurred: 1. Emotional distress: I have experienced a range of negative emotions, such as frustration, anger, betrayal, and a sense of violation. Seeing someone else take credit or benefit from my ideas has been deeply hurtful and demoralizing. 2. Financial loss: My stolen idea had commercial value and the potential for financial gain, as the original creator I have suffered financial losses. I have missed out on opportunities for monetizing my idea or I lost market share to the company/person who stole my idea. 3. Professional setbacks: Idea theft has negatively impacted my professional reputation and opportunities. It has undermined my credibility, making it harder for me to gain recognition or secure future collaborations or employment. 4. Stifled innovation: I have been discouraged from sharing my ideas and has lead to a broader chilling effect on innovation, as I have become reluctant to disclose my ideas due to fear of theft. 5. Legal battles: Legal battles can be time-consuming, stressful, and expensive and t | Awaiting amendment/certification | Jesseca Hussain, Ar. | none | Apple Inc. | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0405 | infringement-DMCA | I submitted copies of my music in which was infringed upon | I released a song named Pussytalk in which I had in pre-registration in the eco system.I uploaded my video to YouTube platform on Oct 26,2018 it got 823 views in which I began all copyrights to the song my registration became official on 05/20/2019 .City Girls from QualityControlMusic llc Doja Cat, and Southside on the Track uploaded PussyTalk on July 3,2020 .The company QualityControlMusic llc had been in Memphis where I live because they have signed artist from this city and during the time of Oct 24 2018 up until City Girls dropped their single I was the Dj at different radio stations and listening parties in which I always had the opportunity to play new music for others considering it was my job.When I first seen the CityGirls version of my song I was traumatized and under emotional distress because it was too close for me to say it was unintentionally. | Lost sales,lost profits,lost licensing revenue,Emotional Distress,Pain and suffering | Awaiting amendment/certification | Jamiece Jones | none | QualityControlMusic llc | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0404 | infringement | Video published on the TikTok platform at link https://www.tiktok.com/@braunlaw/video/7306554494966336810 . Author created the entire motion picture. | Lily Marston (“Respondent Marston”) and Jessica Vazquez (“Respondent Vazquez”), collectively referred to as "Respondents," published a video on December 2, 2023, on YouTube, known as episode 97 and titled “Lauren the Mortician’s Lawyer is WAY WORSE than We Thought + VLOG SQUAD: Where Are They Now?” (“Infringing Work”). Respondents copied a substantial portion of Braun IP Law, LLC’s (“Claimant”) copyright registered work titled "Bekah Day False Accusations," Registration No. PA 2-443-504, issued on December 5, 2023. The infringement started on December 2, 2023, and continues through multiple online platforms. The infringement on YouTube ceased on December 8, 2023. The Infringing Work was viewed more than 132,000 times before it was removed from YouTube. Respondents were not given authorization, license, or permission to use any portion of Claimant’s work by Claimant. Respondents have admitted, by claiming fair use under penalty of perjury in their counter-notices submitted to YouTube, that: 1) Claimant has a valid copyright to its work; 2) Respondents copied Claimant’s work; 3) Respondents used at least a portion of the work in their video; and 3) Respondents did not have authori | Claimant is seeking the maximum relief that the Board believes is justified. Claimant's copyright was registered within three months of the publication date and statutory damages are available to Claimant. Respondents appear to have infringed Claimant's copyright at least 19 times. In Elvis Presley Enters., Inc. v. Passport Video, 349 F.3d 622 (9th Cir. 2003), the court noted that because the use was commercial in nature, market harm could be presumed. The market for licensing television clips would be undermined with widespread use of this type. Claimant suffers similar damages as Evlis Presley Enters. because the use is commercial in nature and the market for Claimant's original video is being undermined by the widespread dissemination of the Infringing Work. Respondents did not include a link to Claimant's original work and appear to be purposefully driving views away from Claimant's original publication. The market of viewers of Respondents' infringing work are the same as Claimant's original work: those that are interested in learning about the subject matter of Claimant's work. Claimant's TikTok account, where the original work was published, is a business account and nearly | Certified | Braun IP Law, LLC | none | Lily Marston | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0403 | infringement | (File: trust.mp3) within the song, I created adlib sound chants "hot hot hot hot" pronounced "ha ha ha ha ha" recited at 1 second intervals repeatedly as my signature | Gunna has used and is continuing to use my signature sound "ha ha ha ha" (breath chants of the word HOT) in songs titled HOT ft Young Thug, and song " FUCKUMEAN". He's used my sound and is portraying it as his own original creation. I let the first offense slide in 2019 because I thought they were paying me their respects, but he's done it again in 2023 with song "FUCKUMEAN". So I see he's trying to portray it as his own intellectual property and will continue to do so if I don't stop it now. | I have not received any royalties, acknowledgement/credits nor been listed as a contributing author on said songs. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Sheri C Johnson | none | 300 ENT | Amended Claim |
| 23-CCB-0402 | -DMCA | NA | NA | This YouTuber has been stalking me online for well over a year. He has been using his channel to harass and defame me. He even went as far as to hire some old disabled woman to pretend that she was my mother and slander me. He has damaged my reputation and I have lost many subscribers and thus money due to his lies and theft of my content | Certified | Jesse A MacBeth | none | Reese R Smith | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0401 | infringement | Instructions on How to connect a relay to a fireplace. | Images have been copied and used and instructions on how to connect a relay to a fireplace. these images are ours which with took and created. | We have been harmed financially due to a seller stealing our design and idea for creative easy-to-follow instructions using our images. We are seeking financial compensation of $1,000 per image ($3,000 Total) and the destruction of all images in possession of shen yu chan, Hengxi Direct | Awaiting amendment/certification | Paul MahIe | none | shen yu chan | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0400 | 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 following Ultimate Fighting Championship® ("UFC") and boxing programs, including all undercard bouts and commentary, for businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim: UFC 257: Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor 2 on January 23, 2021, UFC 264: Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor 3 on July 10, 2021, UFC 265: Derrick Lewis vs. Ciryl Gane on August 7, 2021, UFC 266: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Rafael Ortega on September 25, 2021, Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder III on October 9, 2021, UFC 268: Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington 2 on November 6, 2021, UFC 269: Charles Oliviera vs. Dustin Poirier on December 11, 2021, and Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley II on December 18, 2021, (the "Programs"). Commercial businesses such as the business made the basis of this claim were not authorized to re | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $30,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violations of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Certified | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | G & P Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0399 | infringement | Blackberry Blossom, words and music by Michelle Shocked | A misattributed, unlicensed distribution of my musical work, Blackberry Blossom, by LANDR. My good faith effort to mitigate the harm of a non-compliant notice of intention to obtain a compulsory mechanical license prior to distribution was met with an organized effort by the respondents to misdirect and delay effectual resolution. | These respondents engaged in an an effort to cover up statutory compulsory mechanical licensing non-compliance, and in doing so, to commit willful copyright infringement, with red flag knowledge of such infringement. I am seeking full statutory damages in an effort to preserve and protect my ability to license my works in a fair and open marketplace as a good faith and willing participant. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Michelle Shocked | none | LANDR Audio | Claim |
| 23-CCB-0398 | infringement-DMCA | independent film | Red Letter Media stole my Film "Diamond Cobra vs The White Fox" including my original songs "Love Ties" and "Ill Do Me" as well as footage from my music video "Love Ties" all without my permission. Their video went viral on YouTube with over 1 million views, with their fans attacking my name, likeness, film, songs with lies due to this video. The video displayed the beginning, middle and ending of my film, a whole one hour video they made calling themselves Movie critics, a good 80% of my film was displayed in their video, along with defamation of character toward me. Their fans kept calling this "Fair- Use" saying its a review video. This was not a review video it was cyber bullying, a cheap way to steal my film and display it all over the internet just to gain money/views on YouTube by taking someone else work. Real "fair-use" content is less then 10% of copyrighted content including news reporters, real movie critics etc. These people are abusing the term "fair-use" to steal other people content and display it all over the internet which is sad. I also researched “fair-use” on google it said no more then 10% of a single movie or tv show may be used and as far as movi | I want YouTube to stop allowing re uploads of this same video, I hit prevent copies but it still keep being re uploaded since 2020-present. It had already been establish that is was not "fair-use" but this is on going harassment, cyber bullying, my film being displayed on the internet for free, I'm losing revenue on my film. People are believing the lies that was told about me and my film work all because of this video. This is stressful and annoying. No one deserves this type of abuse for being a filmmaker. I went to college got my BA Degree in film class of 2010. I'm aware that people might like the content I create which is fine, but no one has the right to go on a rampage of slandering my name for stealing my copyrighted content just to gain views and income out of it. I want this to STOP!! Their official website: https://www.redlettermedia.com/best-of-the-worst/best-of-the-worst-diamond-cobra-vs-the-white-fox | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Deuandra Brown | none | Suraj Ithikatt | Claim |
| 23-CCB-0397 | infringement | Two-dimensional digital art | I have an artist website and have been selling on Etsy for many years. I do not know how they got my art. They are not only using my exact art but they use my name also. I've requested takedowns but this is what I found today. My Art: Beer Dragon https://stanley-morrison.pixels.com/featured/beer-dragon-stanley-morrison.html Their Website: https://www.trendsinternational.com/stanley-morrison-beer-dragon-poster20891.html Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Trends-International-Stanley-Morrison-Unframed/dp/B097V1L54G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SLXVWJQGRXIF&th=1 Target: https://www.target.com/p/trends-international-stanley-morrison-beer-dragon-unframed-wall-poster-prints/-/A-88346428?preselect=88346433#lnk=sametab Walmart: Took the listing down My Art: Tea Dragon https://stanley-morrison.pixels.com/featured/tea-dragon-stanley-morrison.html Their Website: https://www.trendsinternational.com/stanley-morrison-tea-dragon-poster20892.html Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Trends-International-Stanley-Morrison-Version/dp/B097WD6QDV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JNS4B32RQ4Y8&th=1 Target: https://www.target.com/p/trends-international-stanley-morrison-tea-dragon-framed-wall-poster-prints/-/A-84299475?presel | I've lost time I could be creating art with hours spent issuing copyright infringements repeatedly against this company. I've also lost sales that are going to them that should be mine. My reputation, which I spent years building, not only as a artist but in art sales has been degraded by this company using my art and my name. The relief I would like is to cease and desist using my name, my art and remove it from their website and all the online stores they are associated with permanently. I would like to be financially compensated the maximum allowed. | Closed | Stanley W Morrison | none | Trends International, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0396 | -DMCA | NA | NA | There is no question that I (Tiffany Luke) am the owner of the video that Keegan is claiming the rights to. The video features my husband and dog and was filmed in my living room. The video was also posted originally to my Instagram account back in 2020 and my YouTube account in 2021, way before Keegan started reposting them on their account in 2022. It is incredibly harmful for Keegan to claim ownership over my video that I worked so hard to create. I was the one who put in all the time and energy into planning, coordinating, shooting, and editing the video. Additionally, my husband has not given Keegan permission to post his likeness. Additionally, it's also harmful that Keegan is claiming ownership even though they know full well that they are not the owner of the video. Soon after my initial copyright removal request was approved by YouTube, Keegan had sent me an email through his clickyt0021@gmail.com email address under the name Kiara admitting they had uploaded content that did not belong to them and begging me to withdraw my copyright removal request. It has been incredibly stressful for me to deal with someone claiming ownership of my work and now having to take | Certified | Tiffany Luke | none | Keegan Smith | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0395 | infringement | Feature Screenplay script | they stole my release. I shortly won an award before the movie came out and in the same month as the movie trailer dropped. They had multiple writers working on the script throughout the years because it’s been in production heck. My script was getting read by agents and screenwriting competitions before it came out so it was probable that someone close to Amazon studios read it and I can get a testimony from the agent I was working with that she sent out my script They both have identical openings and feature a black female sidekick. | The damage is copyright infringement on the script I wrote. I am seeking a writing credit on the movie Without Remorse. I am not seeking anything else. | Closed | Terrell Lipscomb | none | David Ellison | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0394 | infringement | TV Script | I entered in my South Park "Covid Blues" script in the Nickelodeon writing program in 2021 which took submissions on July 1 and picked out winners in December 2021. Here's a link to information on the writing program http://www.nickalive.net/2021/06/nickelodeon-writing-program-2021-to.html?m=1. Also, I can provide more email screenshots from Coverfly stating that my TV script was written in 2021 for the Nickleodeon Writing program. South Park was one of the accepted shows so people in the industry already had access to my TV script. they also use the plot of using science to help push the story which is the same as in my script. Kenny is seen working in the lab, which is science, while in mines the boys work on a science project together. They also both use Japanese characters as a major character in the script as well. In South Park the return of Covid they start the show about going to Denver nuggets game which is the same premise for my script in when they start out at Colorado buffalos' game. So, they both start out with the premise of basketball players. In South Park post Covid and return of Covid they both use science and scientist to push the story, and, in my script, it w | The damage is my copyrighted work has been infringed and I'm seeking a writing credit on both South Park Season 24 episode 3 and season 24 episode 4. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Terrell Lipscomb | none | Trey Parker | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0393 | infringement | Image features a cute ghost wearing glasses and holding a flask above some Periodic Table of the Elements that spell BOO | Respondent found my original work at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1285816011/cute-science-halloween-shirt-ghost Respondent created a nearly exact copy of the work. They only modified the colors. Respondent then posted the work in their own Etsy shop and claimed that it was theirs to sell. | In this copyright infringement case, the unauthorized posting of the original work for sale on Etsy has resulted in significant damages for the original creator. The act has directly led to a tangible financial loss as potential buyers, instead of purchasing the work through legitimate channels, may have opted for the infringing copy. This diversion of sales undermines the economic value of the original creation and deprives the rightful creator of the fair compensation they are entitled to. Furthermore, the presence of the unauthorized copy on Etsy introduces confusion among buyers, as they may struggle to distinguish between the authentic work and the illicit reproduction. This confusion not only compromises the integrity of the original creator's brand but also jeopardizes the trust of consumers who may inadvertently support copyright infringement. Consequently, the damages extend beyond mere financial loss, encompassing the erosion of the creator's market reputation and the disruption of a fair and competitive marketplace. | Certified | Rebecca S Gallant | none | LADI JOHNSON | CCB Proof of Service |
| 23-CCB-0392 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | Computer vector image with multiple icons (Word, PDF, Powerpoint, JPG, PNG, Excel) | Modified vector image of a computer with multiple icons (Word, PDF, Powerpoint, JPG, PNG, Excel) used without authorization in ads on the pdf-pro.io website. | The "pdf-pro.io" website reuses my work and makes money by using my creation for advertising purposes. | Awaiting amendment/certification | MONTES DOLORES | none | DENGA DIGITAL LIMITED | Order to Show Cause |
| 23-CCB-0391 | infringement | Lil Baby feat 42 Dugg and Veeze-U Digg | On 08/11/2022, ASCAP received a registration from Warner Chappell for the title "U Digg" by American Musician Lil Baby A.K.A Dominique Jones. The registration was accepted and created by ASCAP with respect to all names listed on the US copyright registration. I was listed as a writer, but ASCAP manually listed my name as non-authorative neglecting the BMI registration, the US Copyright registration, and the MLC registration which all showed my name (Robert Hill) and my IPI number listed. The neglect of placing me as non-authorative on a composition that was correctly registered by Warner Chappell allowed my share of the copyright to be used without my royalties being collected as other writers were paid out for this title. This title reached the billboard, and I was never compensated, but on Oct 9th, 2023, ASCAP told me that I was owed $5k for the previous year which was very inaccurate. I have the same share as Dion Hayes A.K.A 42 DUGG but his payments were larger than mine and the excuse ASCAP Attorney Richard Reimer gave was Mr. Hayes has his own administrator which is Warner Chappell who administrated this title on his behalf and that increased his royalties. The problem is I h | I have lost my opportunity to receive a fair auction at The Royalty Exchange due to my income showing only 5k per year for the title which would've been more if my share was administrated. I lost interest from investors due to not having prepared statements to show where my royalties came from each quarter, I lost jewelry my home and car within the time of finding out about this issue on 08/11/2023 which was coincidentally a year later from the Warner registration we were never alerted about because I still wasn't paid until 10/09/2023. I am seeking to receive exactly what my share would have been auctioned for at The Royalty Exchange and that's 30k in damages. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Robert L Hill, Jr | none | ASCAP | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0390 | infringement | None given | Our original copyrighted work is our product packaging (trade dress). The Saludi packaging was professionally designed. The distinctive qualities: light grey colored box, text, with the specific shape of the box, layers of white foam holding the glasses, and even the type of box. Our Saludi themed box is distinctive and separate from our product function. Under the Lanham act claim and common law rights, our trade dress and rights are protected against unfair competition and trade dress infringement. The junior, Bella Vino, use causes a likelihood of consumer confusion. This confusion is exactly what is occurring here with the other seller copying our distinctive product packing. Our packaging (trade dress) is inherently distinctive, since it is unusual and memorable nature serves primarily to designate the origin of our product. It is also conceptually separate from our product. | 1. Customer confusion 2. Unfair competition 3. Monetarily - taking sales from confusing customers | Awaiting amendment/certification | CDM Innovations | none | QUALITY HOME DECOR | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0389 | infringement | book of blood and deed record and other books for the society for the Kingdom of Atmaurium | our Prince's work is exactly the same silver has not and is not authorized to makes such claims, changes nor to remove original people from the work created in 2005 ie myself, Ahnia Bey aka Myeca El... this woman is a fraud who took advantage of our trust to have her update the dead names with the new ones.... we asked for the control number and she says she got a new TXU completely unauthorized .... | the prince's work remains the same to this day so she has no right to claim it or remove anyone from the original... ms. silvere bey is a fraud who never did any work for the prince in any way this is causing millions of dollars in damages in our Kingdom, it's Treasury, banks and laws | Awaiting amendment/certification | Silvere Bey | none | Silvere Bey | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0388 | infringement | Novel and Poetry | My poetry was copied by Taylor Swift for her songs. Also, she used my likeness and artwork to sell music and merchandise. | Plaintiff's work is no longer viewed as original and thus no longer submits them to writing contests. Plaintiff's book, Fallen from Grace, and Songs of the Unsung, 2019, include a number of creative elements, expressive designs and arrangements without authorization or credit, to the detriment of plaintiff. It is Plaintiff's view that the scope of the 2017 & 2019 copyright registration for the full work includes the entirety of the book, including all design and textual elements thereof. The design and textual elements embodied within the work are original and unique. Plaintiff was not accorded any credits nor received any payments related to the Swift Lover, Folklore, Evermore and Midnights albums since August 23, 2019. The Taylor Swift Productions, Inc. as released and published by Swift and claiming all creative credits for Swift, as well, includes, at least, i) substantially the same format of a recollection of past years memorialized in a combination of written and pictorial components within a book, ii) with a substantially similar cover format, with the author photographed in a downward pose, and color scheme with the same titles and text of poetry by claimant with the natur | Awaiting amendment/certification | Kimberly Marasco | none | Taylor Swift Productions, Inc | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0387 | infringement | Work published on social media accounts | Work is being used without my consent in multiple Youtube videos in a way that infringes on Copyright rules | Work is being used in a demeaning way. I am looking for the respondent to have the infringed works permanently taken down | No claim certified, no orders to amend | jaquan cooper | none | Leonard Elmera | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 221.1(b), pending the outcome of the application for registration of copyright in the work at issue in the proceeding. While the decisions of the registration division of the Copyright Office are completely separate from the Board, if the claimant would like to request that the Office of Registration conduct an expedited review of the application for registration, the Board grants claimant permission to make such a request via eCCB. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf. In determining whether to request expedited registration, the claimant may wish to consider the Copyright Office’s current registration processing times at https://copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf. |
| 23-CCB-0386 | infringement | Fabric Design | Auxo Clothing is reproducing about 10 different clothing and clothing fabric designs that I did not give them permission to use. They are selling my art works and portraying to be the creators of my works. Misleading the public. | The economic harm is staggering as they are selling my art works all over and through many different distribution channels causing extreme confusion to the public and dissolution of my art creativity and original works. I am seeking maximum relief allowed. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Anna-Maria Cousins | none | Auxo Clothing | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0385 | infringement-DMCA | picture of design of our box for products | the respondent use my picture work by labeling there logo on my box picture, we notice the description of product and bullet point are also similar to our listing with pictures. following are some refences. refence for amazon: 1- https://www.amazon.com/MONK-CABLES-Certified-Guaranteed-Performance/dp/B0BTMXT3ZH?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1 2- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KVFFMYP/ref=twister_B0CFJF9M4J?_encoding=UTF8&th=1 Website reference link: 1- https://www.monkcables.com/product/cat6-plenum-1000ft-utp-cmp-rated-550-mhz-23-awg-cable.html eBay reference link: 1- https://www.ebay.com/itm/335068366408?hash=item4e03a18648:g:Mb4AAOSw5S1lJ~SB 2- https://www.ebay.com/itm/335068438123?hash=item4e03a29e6b:g:jLoAAOSwVDNlKAoR | first of all there is our work and they used it with out our permission and also they become our competitor on online market places. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Syed Naqvi | none | Monk Cables | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0384 | infringement | A medical illustration that shows edema and swelling to the left ankle and foot. | The unauthorized use of 4 Nucleus images on 4 page(s) of the texasfootdoctor.org website. Academy Foot and Ankle Specialists does not currently have and never has had authorization to use our images on texasfootdoctor.org through Nucleus Medical Media. Attempts to resolve this issue by contacting the company have been ignored. The image identified by si55551252 was found on respondent's web page http://www.texasfootdoctor.org/swelling.html. Nucleus has made that image available for license since March 14, 2001 and has licensed it 5 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on May 12, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about October 19, 2014. The image identified by si55551256 was found on respondent's web page http://www.texasfootdoctor.org/warts.html. Nucleus has made that image available for license since March 14, 2001 and has licensed it 6 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on February 26, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about October 18, 2014. The image identified by s | We were prevented from collecting license fees for the images for respondent's use. The value of such a license for four images used one time each and over the time period they are confirmed to have been used is $4,160.00. That amount is the relief we are seeking. | Certified | Nucleus Medical Media, Inc. | none | Academy Foot and Ankle Specialists | Affidavit of Service |
| 23-CCB-0383 | infringement-DMCA | The work represents a video of my interview of Mr. Jhon Jairo Velasquez (aka “Popeye”) that has been filmed for the purposes of the PhD thesis for the University of Edinburgh. | I am the only one who has the exclusive rights. I am the only one who has the copyright of my interview with Popeye in 2018 and the full material which relates to this interview. This interview related to a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and this material was confidential. I don’t allow the distribution, public publicly perform and display, share, sell or any kind of alteration can make to my confidential work. Sebastian Lugo who filmed the interview doesn’t have any right to distribute, alter, publicly perform, share or use my work in any way. He had distributed, alter and copy my work and he had violated my exclusive right. He had made money with YouTube with my material. Sebastian Lugo has access to my work because he was paid to film and edit my interview. he had distributed this material with Natalia Duque in a few videos, which has a substantial similarity and it is a photomontage of my work. I want to clarify that there is no fair use or educational use because the interview is confidential and the YouTube channel Popeye Arrepetido and Nextark are not educational channels, rather these channels prompt satanism, violence and prostitution. 1. EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS a. Copy o | I had been victim of death threats and all kind of cyberbulling and defamation. I suffered panic attack and depression. My PhD was affected because the publication of my work and the stress that was caused in my life. Thus, the provider is taking serious a counter notification which is fraud documents and fake information. | Certified | Catallina Jaramillo | none | Sebastian Xibille Lugo | Second Notice - sent on 12/21/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0382 | infringement | Group registration of published photographs | Claimant Tamara Williams is a highly successful freelance photographer specializing in beauty and fashion photography. Williams is most well-known for her natural and clean model portraiture featured on her highly popular Instagram account @tamarawilliams, which has amassed over 600,000 followers. Claimaint’s work has been featured in top publication such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, L’Officiel, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, and many more. Additionally, her work has been used commercially by brands such as NARS, KKW, Fenty, and Benefit. Claimant is the sole rights holder and copyright owner of 5 original beauty photographs. “Photograph 1”: AU11423912.jpg / Mae Van Der Weide – VA-116-918 “Photograph 2”: TRU2246933 Hilda - VA 2-116-887 “Photograph 3”: TRU2246939 Hilda – VA 2-116-887 “Photograph 4”: AU11423026 Ali – VA 2-114-445 “Photograph 5”: AU11423988 Nabla – VA 2-116-904 Respondent is the owner and operator of the Facebook Page “Sky Lounge Skin Care LLC” https://www.facebook.com/SkyLoungeSkinCare, which is a social media page that promotes and advertises the Respondent’s spa business. On or about November 22, 2020, Claimant discovered all f | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Certified | Tamara Wareka | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Sabrina Carroll | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0381 | infringement | Group registration of published photographs | Claimant Gavin O’Neill is a fashion and beauty photographer specializing in hair and beauty photography. Mr. O’Neill’s work has been featured in top publications such as Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and GQ. Additionally, O’Neill’s work has been used commercially by brands such as Gillette, Olay, Garnier, KKW Beauty, L’Oreal, LUX, Rolls Royce, and many more. Claimant is the sole rights holder and copyright owner of an original beauty photograph of a naked woman with a flower placed over her body. Respondent is the owner and operator of the Facebook Page “Sky Lounge Skin Care LLC” https://www.facebook.com/SkyLoungeSkinCare, which is a social media page that promotes and advertises the Respondent’s spa business. On or about November 22, 2020, Claimant discovered his photograph being displayed on Respondent's Facebook page in a post captioned “Remember today is BOGO 50% off waxing services! Click the link in our bio to book your appointment today”, directly promoting Respondent’s services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Certified | Gavin O'Neill | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Sabrina Carroll | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0380 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Infringing copies of the work were published without authorization for free consumption by visitors of YouTube.com. We are seeking to prevent the infringing copies from reappearing on YouTube.com or anywhere else as well as the maximum amount of damages allowable. | Awaiting amendment/certification | MSE Publishing LLC | Selman Munson and Lerner | Tokybook.com | Amended Claim |
| 23-CCB-0379 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Infringing copies of the work were published without authorization for free consumption by visitors of YouTube.com. We are seeking to prevent the infringing copies from reappearing on YouTube.com or anywhere else as well as the maximum amount of damages allowable. | Awaiting amendment/certification | MSE Publishing LLC | Selman Munson and Lerner | Tokybook.com | Amended Claim |
| 23-CCB-0378 | infringement | 2-D artwork including letters, numbers, symbols, and flowers used to create a stencil kit. | The infringement involved using an exact duplicate of our copyrighted 2-D artwork for the stencil kit sold and distributed by our company. This duplicate product was sold under James' brand name "Schnarlotte Gifts" and undercut the price point of our stencil kit in order to cannibalize a significant portion of our business' revenue. | The harm is two fold: it has resulted in a decrease in our business' profits, which therefore contributed directly to the infringer's profits. In the approximately 3 months the infringing listings were live on Amazon, our company observed a $24,570 decrease in profits. Additionally, our research tools indicate that the infringing listing earned approximately $45,000 in revenue. | Certified | STZ Holdings LLC | none | James T Baxter | Proof of Service |
| 23-CCB-0377 | infringement | A medical illustration that shows the fetus in the uterus in the fourth month (second trimester) of pregnancy. | The unauthorized use of 25 Nucleus images on 5 page(s) of the parents.com website. Dotdash Meredith does not currently have and never has had authorization to use our images on parents.com through Nucleus Medical Media. No third parties have ever been given permission to re-license that image. The image identified by 3DSAJ18157zk was found on respondent's web page https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/week-by-week/. Nucleus has made that image available for license since May 11, 2010 and has licensed it 5 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on May 08, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about July 22, 2019. The image identified by 3DSAJ18157s was found on respondent's web page https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/stages/2nd-trimester-health/your-second-trimester-week-by-week/. Nucleus has made that image available for license since May 11, 2010 and has licensed it 3 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on March 13, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about July 22, 2019. The image | We were prevented from collecting license fees for the images for respondent's use. The value of such a license for 27 images used across five different pages over the time period they are confirmed to have been used is $12,690.00 USD. That amount is the relief we are seeking. | Certified | Nucleus Medical Media, Inc | none | Dotdash Meredith | Opt-out for Dotdash Meredith |
| 23-CCB-0376 | -DMCA | NA | NA | The harm suffered is lost income of copyright holders. But we agree to keep mentioned URLs delisted, so we ask to Google inc not reinstate relisted URLs by misrepresentation counter notice | Awaiting amendment/certification | AXGHOUSE ANTIPIRACY OÜ | none | Anton Frolov | Order to Show Cause |
| 23-CCB-0375 | infringement | Black Male, Brown Skin, Sunglasses, Black Shirt, Highlighted Background | The user uploaded my image onto a video shorts that he used on his channel. | Misrepresentation, Harassment, Defamation and Threats. He collaborated with Damon Lovell, Kenneth Rucker and Marquis Platt / Edwards in harassing my subscribers and I by weaponizing my own photos against me by spreading misinformation. This caused depression, anxiety, stress and fear since they also doxxed me as well and displayed my home address and family members online. The copyright infringement is just part of their attacks. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | James H Dillard, II | none | David McDowell | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 221.1(b), pending the outcome of the application for registration of copyright in the work at issue in the proceeding. While the decisions of the registration division of the Copyright Office are completely separate from the Board, if the claimant would like to request that the Office of Registration conduct an expedited review of the application for registration, the Board grants claimant permission to make such a request via eCCB. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf. In determining whether to request expedited registration, the claimant may wish to consider the Copyright Office’s current registration processing times at https://copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf. |
| 23-CCB-0374 | infringement | The work was originally a composition written on 1980 by Juan Antonio Corretjer. | 1. You own a valid copyright in the work or have been given an exclusive license to the copyright rights at issue in the work, I do own a valid copyright. According to copyright.gov: "Once you create an original work and fix it, like taking a photograph, writing a poem or blog, or recording a new song, you are the author and the owner. Companies, organizations, and other people besides the work's creator can also be copyright owners." The author of the composition “Boricua en la Luna” is Juan Antonio Corretjer, deceased father of Consuelo L. Corretjer. She signed his exclusive copyrights as author's heirs with the music publisher company Latin American Music Co. Inc. (LAMCO) on August 21, 1999. Moreover, the creation of this composition was fixed in 1980 and first published in 1988 by the respondent’s registration of the alleged derivative work of this original composition, with musical arrangements, PAu0001236872. This derivative work of the respondent doesn’t count with a writing agreement of copyrights exclusive rights transfer. Furthermore, on June 24, 2021, the composition was registered by Consuelo L. Corretjer, as heirs of these exclusive rights on the copyright office PA0 | The harm being suffered as a result of the alleged activity is deprivation of copyright revenues and the misattribution of authorship over a valuable creative work, an original composition by Juan Antonio Corretjer. In addition, the royalties that have ceased to accrue since the original authorization to create a derivative work of the composition and subsequent permissions given for reproductions, public performances and derivative works illegally authorized by the respondent for this original work. The relief which is seek by this claim is to be recognized as the authentic author of this composition, the claimant and, to be compensated with the royalties and revenue forfeited. | Awaiting amendment/certification | LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC CO. INC. | none | Roy Brown | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0373 | infringement | Drawing of the folklore character Krampus in skeletal form with trademarked TOAT Studio brand logo embedded. | I noticed this seller took my original design and have listed on their online Etsy shop for sale. My listing has a video of when I originally drew the illustration back in November of 2022. Additionally, in the design, I have incorporated my trademarked brand logo into the art design. My design with my logo can be seen in the infringing culprit’s listing. | Emotional distress, the loss of revenue, incurred fees for this process, and most importantly the loss of time. | Closed | Misako Akabori | none | Lara Altic | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0372 | infringement | Feature Screenplay script | Both written works are centered around a restaurant and them putting weed into their food to help the restaurant. They did announce their story in 2016 but didn't explain what ingredients they were going to use so now I can't use my script because it is basically the same thing. All I am asking for is a writing credit. Nothing else, since I can't use mine script because it is basically the same thing as theirs. | All I am asking for is a writing credit. I really can't use my script since the infringed work. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Terrell Lipscomb | none | Netflix | Written Statement 3 |
| 23-CCB-0371 | infringement | Aerial tour of city of Carmel, Indiana. Drone video, drone operation portfolio. | The respondent used my work as visual aid in their work, with my copyright content taking up a significant portion of the video. My video is an aerial tour of the city of Carmel, Indiana: showcasing the city's landmarks. The respondents infringing content uses my drone footage to explain the city's design, documentary style. This "mini-documentary" does not comment on or critique the content within my video specifically. The infringing video is currently unavailable on YouTube, because I submitted a copyright removal request through YouTube. Before the infringing video was removed however, it did appear as though it was being monetized, as there were ads displayed before the video played. I am submitting this claim in response to the respondent submitting a counterclaim through YouTube: This means the video will be restored on YouTube in approximately 10 days, unless I provide YouTube with valid proof of myself taking legal action against the respondent. The respondent claims to have licenses for all of the content used in their infringing video; They disclosed with me via email that they procured all of their video material from a stock video service called "Envato | statutory damages | Certified | Samuel Walker | none | Zachary Domet | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0370 | infringement | Personal photo of my own work (photo depicts a side view of an 18K yellow gold carved dragonfly ring with blue sapphire and diamonds) | Etsy.com is hosting copyrighted material (i.e., my photos detailed here) that someone else posted, I filed a DMCA notification of the infringement (ID#s 1559923571, 1547207131) and while it initially removed the material, I later received notifications that Etsy will allow the material to be re-posted and that it will no longer remove or disable access to the material without a court order due to the sellers filing counter notices. I originally published my photos on my Instagram and blog, and I assume this is from where they were taken. | I gave Etsy notice of the infringement and while it initially removed the material, I later received notifications that it will allow the material to be re-posted and that it will no longer remove or disable access to the material without a court order. Harm suffered: Etsy is allowing its sellers to misrepresent my artwork as their own by allowing my personal photos to be displayed by sellers who are not me and who are not selling my work. Etsy is further allowing sellers to defraud their buyers as whatever product they are selling is not what is depicted in the photos (being my photos of my own personal work). Buyers have no way of knowing that they are not purchasing jewelry made by me, and make the assumption that someone else is selling my work. These sellers are selling mass-produced items, but using my photos of my own custom one-of-a-kind artwork to depict them. Furthermore, some of these photos (specifically OEC Sakura Solitaire photo 1) clearly show my trademark hallmark stamp on the ring. This dilutes my brand because it makes it appear to my customers that I am also mass-producing artworks they understood to be one-of-a-kind. It also suggests to potential consume | Closed | Cheyenne Weil | none | Etsy Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0369 | infringement | Social and political satire; contemporary reworking of "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville | I allege my manuscript was first maliciously and liberally distributed to multiple affiliate media (the other named 'Respondents' in this claim) by The New Yorker magazine after its submission in July 2022. The Respondents misappropriated content from my manuscript for their productions including scenes, dialog and in some instances characters' names. | Loss of potential work, income, opportunities. My reputation has been severely damaged. My manuscript almost entirely destroyed and/or erased. | Closed | Dennis T Nixon | none | Advance Publications, Inc. dba Condé Nast, Inc; The New Yorker; Warner Brothers Discovery; Home Box Office, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0368 | infringement | text, photograph, compilation and some drawings | Video interviews of Dr. Clare Graves - on videos owned and copyrighted by claimant and which includes content also copyrighted by claimant - have been displayed and published on Infringer's YouTube site. The link to the offending material is www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9KQ-9z70rQ | Statutory damages and compel defendant to refrain from further publishing content. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Natasha Todorovic-Cowan | Policastri Law Firm LLC | Said E Dawlabani | Amended Claim |
| 23-CCB-0367 | infringement | An original compilation of non-white and/or non-Protestant Suffragist lyrics set to original musical arrangements for mixed choir and various instruments | Claimant wrote the work for Respondent and gave it to Respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support to create content. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0366 | infringement | Musical arrangement for mixed choir and piano of a Suffragist from the National Association of Colored Women | Claimant wrote the work for Respondent and gave it to Respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0365 | infringement | Musical arrangement for mixed choir and piano of a Suffragist from the National Association of Colored Women | Claimant wrote the work for Respondent and gave it to Respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0364 | infringement | Musical arrangement for mixed choir and piano of a Suffragist from the National Association of Colored Women | Claimant wrote the work for Respondent and gave it to Respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0363 | infringement | Musical arrangement for mixed choir, ukelele, and optional bass guitar of poetry by Queen Lili'uokalani | Claimant wrote the work for Respondent and gave it to Respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0362 | infringement | Musical arrangement for mixed choir and piano of a Suffragist from the National Association of Colored Women | Claimant wrote the work for Respondent and gave it to Respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0361 | infringement | Musical arrangement for mixed choir, trumpet, guitar, and tuba of anonymous New Mexican Suffragist from ca. 1910 | Claimant wrote the work for the respondent and gave it to respondent directly for a performance on 3 Nov 2020. On 3 Nov 2020 Respondent made and/or caused to be made an audio and/or video recording of the work without authorization. Respondent livestreamed and/or caused to be livestreamed the work on 3 Nov 2020 without authorization, where the work is still being offered for public viewing. Respondent published and/or caused to be published the work online in 9 additional locations from ca. 10 November through ca. 1 May 2021 without Claimant's authorization. Respondent used the videos to solicit donations, grant monies, and/or corporate sponsorship. Claimant's name was left off recordings and distributions. Respondent made derivations to Claimant's work; performed its derivative work multiple times so that individuals privately benefitted and a market was created outside Claimant's control; made an audio CD in July-August 2022. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Neither Claimant nor Respondent generate revenue from video sales or licensing. Rather, both Claimant and Respondent generate revenues from grant support. Respondent also generates a large proportion of its income from donations. Respondent made approximately $190,000 in revenues during the fiscal period in which the distributions were made. However, Respondent has promoted Claimant's work until at least April 2023. Claimant has been shut out of the market created by Respondent because her name was left off her work. Claimant cannot use her own work to generate more support for it. Claimant seeks the greater of actual damages or statutory damages. Claimant's losses amount to the nearly full $30,000 maximum actual damages. Claimant's losses reach the $15,000 maximum statutory damages. Please see full attached claim in documents section | Certified | Jean M Guerrero | none | The Rochester Oratorio Society, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0360 | infringement | Original oil painting on canvas | It looks like the infringing material was taken off my website and used to create this poster. | This person has stolen my artwork and is profiting off of it. I filed a claim against the shop on Etsy but the seller responded with a counter notice. He does not want to remove my image from his site. I'm seeking all possible damages related to someone stealing copyrighted artwork. | Certified | Janet L Hill | none | Andrew Gordon | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0359 | infringement | A medical illustration that identifies the levels (stations) of presentation of the fetal head at birth. Pictures a side cut-away view of the maternal pelvis, abdomen, and the fetus progressively descending to stage 0. | The unauthorized use of 1 Nucleus image on 8 page(s) of the thejoyofthis.com website. The Joy of This does not currently have and never has had authorization to use our images on thejoyofthis.com through Nucleus Medical Media. No third parties have ever been given permission to re-license that image. The image identified by exh38839c was found on respondent's web page https://thejoyofthis.com/page/2/. Nucleus has made that image available for license since July 24, 2001 and has licensed it 11 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on May 25, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about October 29, 2014. The image identified by exh38839c was found on respondent's web page http://thejoyofthis.com/2013/03/15/birth-sensations-and-protecting-the-perineum-through-it-all/. Nucleus has made that image available for license since July 24, 2001 and has licensed it 11 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on June 22, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about December 01, 2013. The image ident | We were prevented from collecting license fees for the image for respondent's use. The value of such a license for 8 uses and over the time period it is confirmed to have been used is $9,200.00. That amount is the relief we are seeking. | Closed | Nucleus Medical Media, Inc. | none | Joy Kusek | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0358 | infringement | The movie poster for the film The Legend of Boggy Creek depicting a Bigfoot creature | Selling posters of my movie art on Amazon. | They are selling cheap posters and they are undercutting my price point with their shoddy merchandise. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Pamula P Barcelou | none | ZHANG ZHIPING | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0357 | -DMCA | NA | NA | The harm suffered due to this alleged activity includes the unauthorized dissemination of copyrighted material, causing financial losses to the original creator, Volodymyr Iling. This action has led to a reduction in the economic value of the copyrighted work and infringes upon the creator's exclusive rights as protected under the law. The relief sought in this matter is twofold: To restrain the uploader, "Эмигрируй с умом! Запасной канал," from further infringing activities by prohibiting the continued posting and dissemination of the copyrighted material on YouTube using the specific link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN4Ub0wPdEc. To remedy the harm suffered by the original creator, seeking appropriate damages and financial compensation resulting from the unauthorized use and distribution of the copyrighted work, by paying $2000 | Closed | Volodymyr Iling | none | Denys Tkachenko | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0356 | infringement | black women with bold cap, black shirt , purple blanket with manly face and | The responded has gotten the photo from another youtuber name Marquis 912. I don't know how he has gotten the photo however, the responded did not get my permission to use the photo. | This person is using the photo to mock and make fun of me saying that I look like that in real life when the photo was a form of art. | Closed | Rhonda M Johnson | none | David McGowan | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0355 | infringement | This work is a derivative work. The derivative work is a collection of sound recordings composed by Langston Childs. | We have identified a rights infringement issue at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aub1MTV69g Work copied from: https://soundcloud.com/charisma808/charisma-808-lit?si=c59244fb5dd24c12be5b824adffa985a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing These sound recordings comprise a collection of copyrighted materials under the ownership of CharismaGoHam. The work was distributed without a license. This violates my exclusive rights As per Section 501 of Title 17 USC, the uploading and distribution of copyrighted works are considered acts of copyright infringement. We hereby request an immediate halt to the use and distribution of all infringing materials derived from this composition. Enclosed, you will find a copy of my copyright registration certification. | Statutory damages and compel the defendant to remove content. | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | Matthew Fosse | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0354 | infringement | Laweius.com | They stole all the matherials from my website, named https://zdravyjum.nethouse.ru/posts/laweiuscom | I'd like to achieve the justice, and kindly asking you for the deletion of the illegal matherials from the Google search. Particulary, delete the URL of the scammers (https://komentish.com/kompanii/zagranitsa/laweius.com.html) | Closed | Eduard Masliakov | none | Komentish.com | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0353 | infringement | Construction QA/QC Plan | The respondent found a sample of my work online. I publish a partial representation of my work as a sample which I use to license my work to paying customers. I have a copyright on the bottom of the sample. The respondent copied large portions of my copyrighted text even though the PDF setting was restricted from copying. The respondent then added my copyrighted text to his construction QA/QC plan and submitted it as his own to his customer. His customer liked the derivative work so much that it distributed distributed the work to many other construction companies as an example of a good QA/QC Plan. | I license my Construction QA/QC Plan to companies for $595 per company. Because the derivative was sent to an unknown number of companies to use without giving credit to me or giving notice that the material was copyrighted, I have lost numerous sales. I am seeking $5000 in compensation for the sales losses. | Certified | Edward Caldeira | none | NOVO Marble LLC | Verified Return of Service |
| 23-CCB-0352 | infringement | It is a folk pop song with acoustic guitar and female vocals. We are controlling 100% of the master and 100% of the composition | The defendant synchronized our work "You Make Me Happy" with his commercial for dog food. The defendant has not received any permission from us to use the specified work for his advertising. Please refer to the attached document for a detailed description of the infringement. | Normally, we generate five to six-figure revenues in US$ from artists' works when we grant synch rights for commercials. We are also currently negotiating with a major seller for animal food regarding this piece of work. It really harms these negotiations that a competitor is using this work for himself already. We demand the takedown and compensation for the usage and the damage in the amount of at least US$15,000. | Certified | Instnct GmbH | none | Green Juju Kitchen, LLC | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0351 | infringement | This work is a psychological literary suspense novel. It is a story about Cajun families caught up in a religious cult. In particular, one mother, an accomplished woodswoman, healer ,and artist, is from a fishing family of Houma, Louisiana. She finally realizes that she has invited a predator who has raped her daughter, then murders him and receives a life sentence. From her prison cell, she tells the story to her daughter's friend, who has become her doctor. After she dies, leaving behind her daughter, as wells as her photographs and drawings from a failed publication of a herbal and surgical catalogue, the doctor resigns. She gives the written memoire to her patient’s abandoned daughter, then removes the family emblem with a crawfish, thereby liberating the creature, who returns to the bayou. | I have compiled a nearly five-hundred page description of the infringement with 250 scenes and about 2500 detailed infringements listed. There are many types of infringements used here, which I believe were created using an early form of artificial intelligence with my work as a prompt, and the request to "rewrite". There are what might be called paraphrases, but also para-sentences, para-language, para-stories, para-rhythms, para-novels. It is the very essence which was copied and remixed. The characters are stolen and characteristics reassigned, mostly to affix these to one character. The names of most of the characters are copied, cut, and remixed, as well. Although my novel was published in 2016, on Amazon, and temporarily online in pirate blogs and libraries, on my own website, and was shared with other writers, agents, and publishers, I believe there is possibly an organization or application, which shares my novel as a prompt. I would like to submit the analysis I have written as part of my description later on. | The harm I have suffered is multiple. Although I have another job, I wanted to publish my work traditionally, in hopes of earning a living as an author. The fact that it was stolen, copied, and transmitted to an other writer, who might be competing directly with me, hurts my marketing ability and devalues my work. Although I am not comparing the style or the value of the infringer's contribution, the content is mine. As with any writer, I could improve on it with professional help as well. The harm I have suffered is also psychological. First there is the immense feeling of grief, then anger about the theft itself. Making an infringement claim is also uncomfortable because I understand about intertextuality and worry that a complaint devalues me as well as the other writer. We all have our favorite authors and it is not agreeable to denounce any one. As this is not federal court and I cannot prove a "real" monetary loss because my book is only self-published (although Delia Owens has sold, according to the press, millions of copies), I can only request statutory relief. I would like to receive the maximum amount awarded for this claim, have her work removed , and have her expose t | Awaiting amendment/certification | Barbara M Bonneau | none | Delia Owens | Amended Claim |
| 23-CCB-0350 | infringement | This work is a derivative work. The derivative work is a collection of sound recordings composed by Langston Childs. | The uploader distributed and monetized from my sound recording without a license. This violates my exclusive rights. | Money is being stolen and collected from my works. I seek to collect for statutory damages. | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | Chris Garcia | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0349 | infringement | None given | Ms. Welch is a local Houston artist who was commissioned by the City of Houston’s Downtown Management District to install her Work, "Commute". Ms. Welch’s Work received substantial press in connection with the City of Houston and the Houston Downtown Management District’s program to introduce vibrant local art into the downtown Houston landscape. It is Ms. Welch’s good faith belief that she did not authorize Crazy Legs Productions, TLC, or any party acting in concert to use the Work in Bad Hair Day or any other production. At no time did anyone reach out to Ms. Welch to inquire about licensing her Work for b-roll footage. To that end, and given the publicity the Work and the City’s art program received, we can only assume the unauthorized and uncompensated use of the Work was intentional and willful. "Commute" was in the B roll footage of The Learning Channel show "Bad Hair Day" in Season 1; Episode 1 from 18:07-18:08, Episode 2 at 6:22, Episode 5 at 34:32, and Episode 6 from 8:03-8:04. It was an exact shot of the mural, with no transformative context. | The Learning Channel, Crazy Legs Productions, and Warner Brothers Media made multiple unauthorized copies along with unauthorized distribution and public display of "Commute" as part of their footage with no compensation to Sarah Welch. When notified of the infringement, TLC and WarnerDiscovery ignored it. Counsel for Crazy Legs Productions maintains it was within its rights to include images of the artwork in the program. Ms. Welch seeks the full $30,000 in damages. | Certified | Sarah Welch | University of Houston Law Center Entertainment Law Clinic | Crazy Legs Productions, Inc. | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0348 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Certified | Nina Designs, Ltd. | Donahue Fitzgerald LLP | Margaret A Skemp | Waiver of Service |
| 23-CCB-0347 | infringement | YouTube video created of Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Park by Author Nicholas Sanchez. | 08/06/2023 Reported the Infringing Online-YouTube- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3hn3MZOO9Y) The Travel Boss copied parts of my content and uploaded it to his channel. The Travel Boss has claimed videos as his own. I have submitted a copyright strike on YouTube, but they are asking that I file a claim. I have asked the owner Sjoerd Vrolijk of The Travel Boss to take down the content and he has refused. He's under the impression that he can screen record content and upload it to his YouTube channel. I have emails of him stating he only used a few seconds of my video, which I never gave consent. | Time and money spent in copyright claim. I am protecting the content I create. I want my video to be protected from future thief from The Travel Boss. | Closed | Nicholas Sanchez | none | YouTube | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0346 | infringement | An additional modification to game called Crusader Kings III. It includes code for scripts and graphical user interface. | The author of the work created a derivative work without permission and did not try to reach me to get permission. | This has caused me stress and undue grief, as the author of the derivative work tried to pass along years of my hard work as his. | Closed | Mert Ataş | none | Joseph Wagner | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0345 | -DMCA | NA | NA | This has caused me stress, as it is very hard for a non-U.S. resident to start a copyright infringement claim in a federal court. I am seeking that the infringed content to be removed and for it to stay that way. | Closed | Mert Ataş | none | Joseph Wagner | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0344 | infringement | Custom Designed Coin Slot Design | Stokes Signs & Signs LLC was contacted by Mr. Sheikh on May 17th 2023, he emailed myself Heather Boykin a copy of his logo and asked for a custom coin slot decal to be made for him. After several emails back and forth I came up with a design and he approved. When the cost was more than he was expecting he decided he no longer wanted the design printed from Signs & Signs. He emailed on May 23rd asking for the cost to purchase the original art file so he could have printed somewhere else. I told him the price and never heard back from him again. I only provided Mr. Sheikh a proof with our company water mark on it. On July 10th 2023 our owner noticed that Mr. Sheikh had in fact used our art work and had another company print it and install decals at his carwash. The decals still had our watermark on them. I emailed Mr. Sheikh that day letting him know that he had used our art work without permission and without paying for it. He basically stated good luck and that it was his art work he created. I have pictures of the art work up at his carwash. He also put pictures online of my design on his social media. He has since put stickers over each print to try and hide our water mark after | Our company has spent many hours creating this work for Mr. Sheikh that could have been spent working on paying customers design. The original job was quoted at $101.20 for each decal at a quantity of 10 decals. Also, a $250.00 design fee. With my added time in emails with Mr. Sheikh and research and filing of this document. I am asking for the maximum allowed of $30,000 as this is blatant theft that has not only stolen time, orders, and our artwork. To have it reproduced 10 times by another company and then be talked about around town as if we had wronged Mr. Sheikh. He also accused me of stealing other peoples art work which is a lie he is spreading about myself and our company. Signs & Signs has been in business for 32 years in our small town and our reputation is what has gotten us that many years in business. | Closed | Stokes Signs & Signs LLC | none | Adil Sheikh | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0343 | infringement | Mountain designs for placing on vehicles | The respondent (Kenneth) purchased my artwork from Esty on August 8th 2021, I then found exact copies of my work for purchase with the company name watermark 'MM Custom Vinyl Studios' operated and owned by Kenneth, on August 24th 2021. August 24th 2021 I asked Kenneth if my work could be removed, he said he didn't sell them then proceeded to block me from seeing if it had been removed. I then later found my work on Facebook Market place and reached out to Facebook with little action from them without a registered copyright number with the US office. On August 10th 2023 I was then informed that there were versions of my work being sold on Esty and after being presented the link to a shop, I realized it was Kenneth - MM Custom Vinyl Studios. I filled a DCMA via Esty which Kenneth countered claiming he wasn't infringing and it was a mistake by me, Esty then allowed Kenneth to continue selling and without a court order from myself, so I decided it was time to take this further. I reached out to Kenneth in a last attempt via his Etsy store 'MMCustomVinylStudio' on August 15th 2023 to resolve this without legal proceedings and he has yet to respond and continues to sell mul | I would like to seek relief for statutory damages for the six versions of my work that are being copied and sold. I've had to take time way from my business to try and contact Kenneth for three years now, this is time I could have spent creating new designs. Attorneys fees have taken place of materials which are required to operate my business, this has lead to a short fall in cashflow which is vital for operation. I would also like my designs to not be copied going forward without my consent or a licensing agreement | Certified | Jason Dwarika | none | Kenneth Rawls | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0342 | infringement | Multi track recording with vocals | Claimant and Respondent co-wrote a musical composition over zoom. Claimant produced and recorded all tracks in his studio, including all instruments and his vocals (but not her vocals). Respondent wished to release the song as an Artist. Claimant sent a track mix with his recorded vocal and music to Respondent for her to record her vocal. After recording her vocal she returned her vocal to respondent to facilitate a mix of the track. Respondent hired a third party to mix the track before releasing the song. The claimant sent his music stems to a third party mixer for that purpose. Respondent released Claimant’s master with his vocal and her vocal added through UNITED MASTERS for worldwide distribution without securing a master license or license for the musical composition. It is claimant’s position that he is 100% rights owner in the sound recording without Respondents vocal Claimant is also a co-writer and co-owner of the musical composition. This is a complicated issue in that respondent released Claimant’s master with Claimant’s and Respondent’s vocals and claimed it as her own. Claimant hired an Attorney to resolve issue with Respondent to no avail. Respondent has n | Infringers profits, attorney and paralegal fees. | Closed | Charles H. Jones | none | Jasmine N McDuffie | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0341 | infringement | Fundraising software that produces 3 or 4 football team combinations weekly. The 3 or 4 team combination scores produce the highest and lowest total scoress each week with prizes paid to winning ticket holders with the highest and lowest 3 or 4 team total scores. | Hays Athletic Booster Club has made unauthorized use of my copyrighted work entitled Football Frenzy, football sweepstakes or electronic football. They have solicited people to buy tickets or chances online that contain 3 NFL football teams each week for the 2023-2024 NFL regular football season. The club advertises that they pay prizes based on the total scores of the 3 team combinations each week. High and low 3 teams combination scores win prizes. "Winners are posted on the HHS Football Frenzy website on Tuesdays: www.hayshighindians.com/frenzy." | James Thomas has spent considerable time and money developing the Football Frenzy fundraising software over the years. Plus considerable money has been spent promoting the software to help non-profit organizations raise money. In this case, I sent emails to Hays High School advertising our Football Frenzy fundraiser to help their athletic booster club raise money. My company, Green Bee Fundraising offered Hays High School booster club the 3 or 4 team football fundraiser that included their own website for participants to view their online teams, team scores and online results each week to show winners. In return, Hays Athletic Booster Club copies and develops what I have copyrighted and does the fundraiser on their own. You can view my Football Frenzy fundraiser at www.GreenBeeFundraising.com | Awaiting amendment/certification | James P Thomas | none | Hays High Athletic Booster Club | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0340 | -DMCA | NA | NA | To begin I must state that the particular copyright work (Soccer Skeleton Overhead Kick Soccer Player Halloween Moon) that is the subject of this proceeding was intended to be available (offered for sale) solely through my own sales account located on the Amazon.com Merch on Demand marketplace platform. The copyright work was uploaded by me to the Amazon.com Merch on Demand platform to be sold only as a design printed on physical products such as shirts, tote bags, hoodies, etc. No digital download of this product is or was offered nor any authorized by myself or Amazon.com. The only method anyone can legally obtain this copyright work is through the purchase of products offered by Amazon.com that include the design printed on it. All other uses are unauthorized. The activity of Erica Aichwalder has contributed to a loss of sales revenue that is incalculable due to the nature of this type of copyright infringement. The respondent somehow obtained an unauthorized copy of my copyright work and created a listing on etsy.com which offered it for sale to the public as a digital download in the form of a PNG file with transparent background. The Respondents listing title included | Certified | Shawn L Hill | none | Erica Aichwalder | Second Notice sent on 12/15/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0339 | infringement | Political Campaign Video | Respondent Andrew Mercado reproduced and performed our copyrighted works on YouTube without permission. Respondent obtained copies of our works via the internet for the purpose of uploading to YouTube to present to his audience. Respondent violated the copyright to our works three consecutive times resulting in YouTube deciding to terminate his YouTube Channel. Respondent has submitted counter-notifications claiming that he has the right to use our works without our permission. YouTube has informed us that we must take legal action to prevent Respondent's videos (which contain our works) from being reinstated to their platform. We file this action in response to Respondent's counter-notifications. | Our copyright has been infringed and our exclusive right to perform and control our work has been violated. We seek a ruling by the board affirming our copyright in order to prevent our works from being reinstated on Respondent's YouTube channel. We also ask that the Respondent be required to reimburse us for expenditures resulting from this action (including, but not limited to, filing fees, etc). | Closed | Andrew Blevins | none | Andrew Mercado | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0338 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | Documentary featuring my livestream footage over time. Meant to shed light on Cyberharassment mainly. | Mr. Thompson used many of the clips contained in this copyright on one of his YouTube Channels. They were taken down on July 28th after I had obtained the copyright. Three months after July 28th is October 28th. Therefore the takedown iterated in the attached images from Ian Boultain and Mr. Thompson are valid statutorily. I would like to note that YouTube denied to exercise my copyright ownership without a registration and gave me no explanation. I believe they are responsible for this infringement vicariously because of deceptive practices such as this. After I struck Thompson's channel for copyright, I believe 3 times, all of the content was removed from the particular YouTube page. But if you look at the screenshot, you can see that YouTube denies people what is blatant copyright ownership (even without registration) and making it so users cannot strike content that is theirs, unless it's uploaded to YouTube or they have an official registration which is fairly expensive. This is a deceptive practice. Mr. Thompson had a channel called "Hollywood Laughingstock Season Two" uploaded and published to a video sharing service called Odysee. Several of the clips infringed on | Though YouTube managed to take down the infringing content expeditiously once I had a registration number, they were well aware of the infringement ongoing. Even without the ability to sue, it is still a violation of copyright law, per my understanding, to publish another's work without permission. Regardless of whether or not they can sue you and receive damages. I believe YouTube engaged in such a blatant act of negligence in this situation that they are responsible for the infringements described. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Todd M Schultz | none | Michael C Thompson | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0337 | infringement | Seal /flag | They been committing corporate crimes with it opening up businesses etc. That's a federal office they been getting money in stocks etc this document are federal documents and state documents they are committing crimes taking anything to temple land ain't with my flags they have there flag like I got mines period this ain't the temple government. Not Jevon Jones kiwan etc. They playing games with my life like clothing line baby pear etc and bottom line entertainment when I seen komu8 news show my janitorial company I was like they stole that. Only online I have is Groupon customer can come on there for service I don't like doing business with them. Groupon have no royalty to nothing I have period these judges prosecutors and attorneys constantly been lying my case in court getting away with crimes of convicting me and they know police lied in report and court house free cased they got excuse after excuse I'm not doing business with bowersox trump or Maplewood government Clayton mo either they all committing crimes against me even Westley bell office know I filed integrity complaint. | Kelly croy 1200 market street room 421 city hall st Louis mo 63103 3146224122 these people been given grant money this European woman don't answer her ph her email don't work and they are not welcome this the games they been playing she is with tishura Jones cori bush just moved downtown they have been capitalizing off my community but acting it's colleges that I mention kjlu Lincoln university all women get in position from k. Harris to tishura Jones even cori bush became senator it could possibly be a all women college like Columbia college Stephen. Not sure though real que dog is another college I'm not accusing I'm stating what I know. Unconsciously they do me like they did Jesus betray me over government but will get in military and get raped shot at etc. | Closed | Jonathan D Smith-el | none | KOMU8 TV | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0336 | infringement | It is a digital clothing item created for sale on the virtual game platform ROBLOX. It is a digital illustration of a denim skirt with a pink bucked belt. The skirt is decorated with a small crown on the front, located on the left side of the skirt, while the right side has in a fancy font “Queen” in white. The back of the skirt has two pockets, one on each side, with a pink star on each one. On the left side of the left leg of the skirt, there are three small stars in a line - one in pink, one in white and one in blue. The skirt is paired with white shoes. The top of the shoes are partially covered with white knitted leg warmers. A "Neo Clothing Technology" watermark/ logo, my own heart designed logo, is located on the bottom of the left shoe. | As there are three offending videos, I will address each one individually. Video One: this was located at URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kRgogHaJs and was uploaded to the YouTube platform on the 14/08/2023. Whilst doing my daily checks on YouTube on the 15/08/2023, I came across the video, and saw that it featured two of my copyrighted digital art works. The digital artworks were “(G)I-DLE ‘Queencard’ Miyeon Inspired Shirt” and “(G)I-DLE ‘Queencard’ Miyeon Inspired Skirt”. This means the video included not one, but two separate designs. I state on my ROBLOX page, YouTube page and in the individual descriptions of each of my works, that using my works in any YouTube and/or other videos requires credit to myself, via a link to my YouTube channel. The respondent was using my works in their YouTube short of their virtual avatar dancing and had no credited me at all. Due to this I filed a Copyright Takedown Request with YouTube to get the offending video removed on the 15/08/2023. The respondent purchased my works on the ROBLOX platform, where I originally uploaded them for sale, as the respondent states in their copyright counter notification to YouTube. The respondent states | YouTube states on their help centre that a way to respond to a copyright counter notification is with “A claim of copyright infringement against the uploader (if such uploader is based within the United States) with the US Copyright Office's Copyright Claims Board (CCB), where applicable.” That means that what I am seeking within this case is to keep the content from three URLS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kRgogHaJs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMdkEJAjkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dGraout91E from being reinstated to YouTube by the responder to restrain the copyright infringement as requested by YouTube after the respondent filed a Counter Notification. I am also seeking statutory damages due the money I’ve been forced to spend by the respondent and YouTube for bringing this action. This has affected me is due to the fact a larger channel was using my works without credit, caused viewers to assume the respondent made the works (which they even imply in the comments, in my opinion). But even in the case of those who won’t assume this, won’t know who or where to find the original cre | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Paris Lane | none | Vix Aga | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 221.1(b) pending the outcome of the applications for registration of copyright in the work at issue in the proceeding. While the decisions of the registration division of the Copyright Office are completely separate from the CCB, if the claimant would like to request that the Office of Registration conduct an expedited review of the application for registration, the Board grants claimant permission to make such a request via eCCB. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf. In determining whether to request expedited registration, the claimant may wish to consider the Copyright Office’s current registration processing times at https://copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf. |
| 23-CCB-0335 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Tracy Anne (Chasing) used my work without permission and without credit or link to my video, which would have brought views and income to my channel. By using my work in this manner, she in effect stole (by youtube's RPM of 6.25 currently) $1170.00 from myself and from others who created the additional material she played during her live stream, not including the Super Chats she received while deliberately placing the videos in a manner that hid the source channel information from her viewers. | Closed | Debbie L Robertson | none | Tracy Scott | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0334 | infringement | Photographs/Digital | I was a paid annual artist/member, for three months, up until being forcibly removed from their platform without notice or cause and without any contact since. Since then, my images have remained up, with links, redirecting traffic to the infringers sites; Fine Art America fraudulently charged my credit card nine months after my account was deleted, which they unethically kept on file after my account was removed by FAA from their platform,without notice or contact. They changed names of Photos, duplicate photos with different names. | Repeated non-compliance with DMCA takedown notices, (3) such notices delivered, which comport with proper notice and required language. Up to $30,000 limit, statutory, respectively, for each Fine Art America, and Pixels.com. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Scott Aaronson | none | Fine Art America | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0333 | infringement-DMCA | A painting of a black and white cat riding a barred-rock chicken. | I don't know how the respondent found my work, but it is online because I sell my artwork online. They are using it on pins and potentially other items and selling them on Amazon, and maybe other online stores, I do not know. I found them on Amazon when I was sending DMCA's to 23 other people who stole my artwork and were selling it. | Art theft is a serious problem that pollutes the marketplace and confuses buyers, thinking it is me selling my artwork on Amazon. It steals my time and money, adds stress I do not need, because I have to continuously file DMCA's, and then deal with Amazon refusing to acknowledge my DMCA claims. And now this respondent has filed a counter notice to my DMCA, claiming my copyrighted work is theirs, thus stealing more time and money from me where I have to file here at the Copyright Claims court. I honestly don't know what monetary amount I am looking for, I just have to file so that they cannot reupload my artwork on Amazon. | Certified | Ryan Conners | none | Cameron Goodman | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0332 | infringement | Claimant is the creator, developer, and registered copyright holder of Winning Isn’t Normal, which was copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 (Registration No. TX2672644.) (see: Exhibit 1 - Copyright) A section of claimant’s book: Winning Isn’t Normal, also titled: “Winning Isn’t Normal” (herein referred to as “WIN”) appears on page 8 of the INTRODUCTION of Winning Isn’t Normal (See Exhibit 2- WIN) and is the heart of the book. In fact, the book was built around WIN. (see: Exhibit 3 - Inception) The rest of the book consists of examples and extensions of claimant’s WIN philosophy. Claimant’s WIN philosophy is claimant’s original, creative expression of what claimant believes is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and in all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. | 1. Through claimant’s diligent efforts to identify unauthorized uses of Winning Isn’t Normal, on September 30, 2020 claimant discovered that on December 17, 2019, a date after claimant’s book Winning Isn’t Normal was copyrighted and registered; respondent duplicated, posted, disseminated, and displayed the work on respondent's social media account without permission from claimant. [Exhibits 4, 5] 2. Respondent's posts are near identical, and clearly substantially similar, to almost 100% of the section of claimant’s book: Winning Isn’t Normal, also titled: “Winning Isn’t Normal” which appears on page 8 of the INTRODUCTION of Winning Isn’t Normal.” (herein referred to as “WIN”) [Exhibit 2] 3. Respondent’s post was instantaneously and directly disseminated to Respondent's 19,648 followers, as well as displayed to everyone in the world with access to the Internet. 4. Further, respondent induced at least 142 others to repost/share WIN with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized disseminations of WIN causing a cascade of unauthorized distributions of WIN. For example, comments posted in reply to respondent's posts include: • “Don’t know where you found | 1. Claimant only permits use of claimant’s copyrighted work by way of a purchase of a copy of the work at $43.90 multiplied by: — the number of copies of the work and/or WIN made — the number of copies of the work and/or WIN distributed in any manner, by any means, including by any advances in technology, or any other means — the number of persons to whom the work and/or WIN was publicly displayed — the number of any other means or uses 2. Any public display of the work and or WIN is instantaneously distributed to the current number of persons who have access to the Internet. Claimant believes that respondent's uses of Winning Isn’t Normal or WIN do not qualify for any legal exemptions to display. 3. Moreover, respondent has encouraged others to duplicate, distribute, and display Winning Isn’t Normal by inviting them to share/repost Winning Isn’t Normal: many of whom have gone on to post/share/display the Work as if it were their own creation. 4. The work has continued to sell every year since it was first made available for sale. In fact, Winning Isn’t Normal sold thousands of copies through pre-publication mail-outs before it was printed. Winning Isn’t Normal con | Certified | Keith F Bell | none | American Ranch Horse Association c/o Mike Coblenz | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0331 | -DMCA | NA | NA | I would like to highlight the extensive repercussions and losses that I, as a dedicated and hardworking content creator, have faced due to World Rugby's undue actions. Projected Revenue Loss: The World Cup represents a significant influx in viewership for rugby-related content. Using a single video as a benchmark that garnered 230k views and generated $900 in a short span, and juxtaposing it against my historic channel metrics, I was poised to make around $1,500 for this one video alone. Had I been able to post the 8 videos that were planned for the duration of the World Cup, with a conservative estimate of $500 each in revenue, the projected earnings would have been $4,000. This amount excludes potential revenue from increased sponsorships and partnerships, which are commonplace during such high-profile events. Opportunity Cost: The World Cup is a quadrennial event, which means lost opportunities during this period are not recoverable until four years later. This is not just a month of lost revenue; it's a loss of four years' worth of specialized content capitalization. Algorithmic Penalization: YouTube's algorithm is intricate. With these unjust strikes, my channel has f | Certified | Lourens van Niekerk | none | TMG | Trident Media Guard | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0330 | infringement | A labeled illustration of the parts of the small intestines. An outline of a human mid-section is shown with the small intestines, with the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum labeled. The large intestines are depicted ghosted for reference. | The unauthorized use of 4 Nucleus images on 5 page(s) of the gastropatienteducation.com website. Raj Bhandari MD Gastroenterology & Nutritional Medical Services does not currently have and never has had authorization to use our images on gastropatienteducation.com through Nucleus Medical Media. No third parties have ever been given permission to re-license that image. The image identified by si55551448 was found on respondent's web page http://www.gastropatienteducation.com/Gatro_Pat/Pat_Ed_web_pages/Small_Intest/The_Small_Intestine.html. Nucleus has made that image available for license since December 04, 2001 and has licensed it 13 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on March 03, 2023 via a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, this infringing use began on or about June 16, 2014. The image identified by si1787 was found on respondent's web page http://www.gastropatienteducation.com/Gatro_Pat/Pat_Ed_web_pages/Small_Intest/Apendicitis.html. Nucleus has made that image available for license since March 14, 2001 and has licensed it 5 times since then (none of which were respondent). This infringement was discovered on Fe | We were prevented from collecting license fees for the images for respondent's use. The value of such a license for five uses and over the time period it is confirmed to have been used is $4,860.00. That amount is the relief we are seeking. | Closed | Nucleus Medical Media | none | Raj Bhandari MD Gastroenterology & Nutritional Medical Services | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0329 | infringement | Claimant is the creator, developer, and registered copyright holder of Winning Isn’t Normal, which was copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 (Registration No. TX000 2672644.) [Exhibit 1 – Copyright] A section of claimant’s book: Winning Isn’t Normal, also titled: “Winning Isn’t Normal” (herein referred to as “WIN”) appears on page 8 of the INTRODUCTION of Winning Isn’t Normal [Exhibit 2 – WIN] and is the heart of the book. In fact, the book was built around WIN. [Exhibit 3 - Inception) The rest of the book consists of examples and extensions of claimant’s WIN philosophy. Claimant’s WIN philosophy is claimant’s original, creative expression of what claimant believes is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and in all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. | 1. Through claimant’s diligent efforts to identify unauthorized uses of the work, sometime in November of 2015, a date after the work was copyrighted and registered, claimant discovered that respondent posted a copy of near 100 percent of WIN on November 10, 2015 on respondent’s social media account. [Exhibit 4- 2015 post pg.3] 2. On or about October 7, 2020 claimant discovered that on or about August 22, 2020, respondent posted a substantially similar and readily recognizable copy of a portion of WIN on respondent’s social media account. [Exhibit 5- 2020 post] 3. Respondent duplicated, posted, disseminated, and displayed “WIN” on respondent’s social media accounts without authorization. 4. Respondent’s posts were instantaneously and directly disseminated to respondent’s more than 11,400 Followers in 2020 and 4656 Followers in 2015 as well as displayed to everyone in the world with access to the Internet. [Exhibit 4 – 2015 post pg. 1] 5. Respondent’s 2020 post remained up at least as late October 7, 2023. [Exhibit 5 – 2020 post] Claimant believes that respondent's uses of the work and of WIN do not qualify for any legal exemptions to display. 6. Further, respondent | 1. Claimant only permits use of claimant’s copyrighted work by way of a purchase of a copy of the work at $43.90 multiplied by: — the number of copies of the work and/or WIN made — the number of copies of the work and/or WIN distributed in any manner, by any means, including by any technology, or any other means — the number of persons to whom the work and/or WIN was publicly displayed — the number of any other means or uses [see above to see which wording is better 2. Any public display of the work and or WIN is instantaneously distributed to the current number of persons who have access to the Internet. Claimant believes that respondents’ uses of Winning Isn’t Normal or WIN do not qualify for any legal exemptions to display. 3. Moreover, respondent has encouraged others to duplicate, distribute, and display WIN by inviting them to share/repost WIN: many of whom have gone on to post/share/display WIN as if it were their own creation. 4. The work has continued to sell every year since it was first made available for sale. In fact, the work sold thousands of copies through pre-publication mail-outs before it was printed. The work continues to sell in 2023 although litt | Certified | Keith F Bell | none | Phil Beckner c/o Michael Gerity | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0328 | infringement | Group registration of published photographs | Respondent is the operator of the instagram @laserfacialmiami which is where the infringements occurred. Specifically, the infringement was published at https://www.instagram.com/laserfacialmiami/ Claimant Florian Sommet is a commercial photographer who shoots ads for major brands. Claimaint is the creator and sole rights holder to an original cosmetic photograph. Respondent is the owner and operator of the Instagram @laserfacialmiami which is a social media page that promotes and advertises the Respondent’s spa business. On or about January 2, 2021 Claimant discovered his photograph being displayed on Respondent's Instagram page in two separate postings, in promotion of its services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Certified | Florian Sommet | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Pleasure in Life LLC d/b/a Laser Facial Miami | Second Notice sent on 12/13/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0327 | infringement | A vector illustration of unicorns leaping with flowers and birds surrounding them. | My artwork, titled "Leaping Unicorns," was featured on two distinct dresses manufactured and sold by Just for Littles. On their online platform, Just for Littles promoted these dresses as their "signature JFL Unicorn Dress" creating an impression that it was either designed exclusively for them or by them. The dresses were produced in two different colorways, both utilizing the "Leaping Unicorn" artwork on the fabric, with the second version being referred to as their anniversary dress. These dresses were available for purchase through various channels, including online, via social media advertisements, at the Minnesota State Fair, and in brick-and-mortar cooperative-type locations. It is also possible that they were sold through other retailers who had acquired the items wholesale through the Just For Littles wholesale program. In the Just for Littles shop at the Minnesota State Fair, a prominent display featured images of a model wearing the dress. In the fall of 2022, I personally contacted the owner of Just for Littles (Tami Enz) via email, seeking information on how she had obtained my artwork for these dresses. She asserted that she had acquired a license for the artwork | Without communication from potential customers indicating their loss of interest in my fabrics, I remain unaware of the extent of business opportunities I may have missed. Prospective customers, when perusing my portfolio, extensively search the internet to identify other users of my designs prior to making a purchase. My clientele anticipates that when acquiring my fabric or the handcrafted items bearing my designs, they will receive something distinctive, setting them apart from factory-produced clothing brands. Consequently, when they encounter instances where my portfolio designs are attributed to a manufactured dress boutique, it undermines the value of my brand. This situation becomes further convoluted when these boutiques insinuate ownership of the design, as was the case with Just For Littles. The relief I seek pertains to profits from all the dresses featuring the Leaping Unicorn designs in both colorways that were sold in Just for Littles retail and Wholesale shops. The dresses were sold at $39 or $29 when on sale. However, I do not possess information regarding the number of dresses that were sold and how many remain in unsold inventory, so an exact relief amount is | Certified | Wendy Sloan | none | Just For Littles LLC | Second Notice sent 11/08/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0326 | infringement | Song on album Freedom Fighters | Songs were unlawfully "registered" and listed by infringer on BMI for license and use. The extent of the licenses, copying, and use by end-user is unknown. | Due to infringement, Claimant loss revenue from the license of songs at issue, Respondent received unlawful revenue from licensing the songs at issue. Claimant also seeks statutory damages, costs and attorneys fees. | Closed | Adam D Indes-Kuehr | TONG ROBBINS LLP | TYLER HENTZNER | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0325 | infringement | Photograph shows an eagle perched atop a gravestone taken in 2011 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Bill Good improperly, without consent, used Claimant’s photograph on his Facebook page and on LinkedIn. The use of Claimant's Photograph was not licensed or otherwise authorized and was used subsequent to Author's passing. Claimant discovered the infringement once she had finalized her husband's affairs and began the arduous process of reigning in the ongoing infringement of the Work in question. Claimant has put Bill Gooding on notice of his infringement. Mr. Good’s infringement is willful. Since finding the infringement, Claimant discovered email records between Mr. Glick (Author) and Mr. Good prior to Mr. Glick's passing. Mr. Good had reached out to Mr. Glick to discuss the purchase of several reprints or a bulk licensing deal for the Keeping God's Acre Photo. Mr Glick was willing to consider discounting the prints in bulk, but expressly stated that "[they] are unable to offer any kind of licensing for reprints." The negotiations then died off and no deal was struck. Despite that, Mr. Good/Bill Good Marketing proceeded to use the image for free and with willful disregard for Mr. Glick's position at the time. | Financial Harm: - Unauthorized Use: The photograph in question, owned by the Claimant, was used without authorization by Bill Good and Bill Good Marketing. This unauthorized use constitutes a financial harm to the Claimant as they have not received any compensation for the use of their intellectual property. - Loss of Licensing Opportunity: Mr. Glick, the Author of the photograph, had previously discussed the possibility of a licensing deal or the purchase of reprints with Bill Good. However, despite Mr. Glick's willingness to consider bulk printing at a discount, it was made clear that no licensing for reprints was available. By using the image without authorization, Bill Good Marketing deprived the Claimant of the opportunity to negotiate and potentially benefit financially from a legitimate licensing arrangement. Emotional Distress and Burden: - Discovery of Infringement: The Claimant discovered the infringement only after the passing of her husband, Mr. Glick. This discovery added emotional distress during an already challenging time, as the Claimant had to navigate the process of finalizing her husband's affairs while simultaneously addressing the infringement issu | Certified | Jo Edwards-Johns | Advitam IP, LLC | Bill Good Marketing | Waiver of Service |
| 23-CCB-0324 | infringement | Video | See attached claim | See attached claim | Closed | Hillary Wright | none | DownloadCopyright Claims Board Claim - Wright v. Breitbart News Network LLC et al.pdf(Opens new window) | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0323 | infringement | Photo of a man, a woman, a baby in front of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, Chicago | CLAIM OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND UNAUTHORIZED CREATION OF A DERIVATIVE WORK BASED ON THE PLAINTIFF'S PHOTO The infringement takes several forms: It could be construed as outright theft of intellectual property, a photo; it could also be construed as a derivative work as it has been placed in the context of defamatory materials which are a false light portrayal of the Plaintiff and violate his right to privacy. I have served multiple takedown notices upon Defendant/Respondent, but she will not remove the infringing material. NOT FAIR USE UNDER THE LAW THE DEFENDANT IS NOT A JOURNALIST. SHE IS A POLITICAL HACK NOTORIOUS IN THE NATIONAL MEDIA Defendant/Respondent is not an ISP and is not in a safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Defendant is not a professional journalist, but is, on information, and belief, a discredited political operative whose advertising work has been banned from airing on ABC Television due to its defamatory, non-fact-based presentation: https://dailycaller.com/2015/04/02/abc-refuses-to-air-anti-rahm-emanuel-commercial/ Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Honorable Tribunal take Judicial Notice of that URL as it is pu | DAMAGE CAUSED BY DEFENDANT'S INFRINGEMENT The harm caused by Defendant/Respondent's illegal infringement is egregious: Defendant/Respondent has created a web site that uses content that I own the rights to in order to defame/slander me, so she is committing multiple illegal acts with her publication of http://www.genekoprowski.wordpress.com. As described above, supra, the illegal publication for years without authorization by me, the author and owner of the IP, is a straightforward infringement per the statute. But Defendant has also used this infringement to portray me in a false light, creating a derivative work with the context in which she publishes the photo without license. have been a professional journalist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker for 35 years (Emmy Nomination, 2008, Three Telly Awards for Best Documentary Archival Research, 2019, 2021, 2022), and a Hermes Creative Award for Best Director (Honorable Mention, 2022). Using my family photo, Defendant/Respondent creates a false light publication, which, in context is designed to harm my reputation and confuse readers and divert them from my actual IP. Defendant is also violating my trademark which I am liti | Closed | Eugene J. Koprowski | none | Laura A Grochocki | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0322 | 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® 253: Israel Adesanya vs. Paulo Costa mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on September 26, 2020 (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 Objective Enterprises, Cimar Scaff, and Rick Silva (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Silva’s Sports Bar & Lounge located at 3672 S. Bristol Street, Santa Ana, CA 92704 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Cimar Scaff (“Respondent Scaff”) and Rick Silva ( | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Certified | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Objective Enterprises | Proof of Service |
| 23-CCB-0321 | infringement | Original photo | Respondent displayed a tweet in their online article from a third party account that included the copyrighted photo, unaltered and unedited as originally captured. Respondent's infringement was willful as they are a multi-million-dollar media company, which means that they know and understand copyright law and how to properly license photos. | Statutory damages for willful infringement in the amount of $30,000.00 | Closed | Hillary Wright | none | SPORTSKEEDA INC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0320 | infringement | Video recording edited from personal video | An Uploader is violating my copyrights by distributing my content by stamping its own ©KARACHISTREETVIEW on it without a license since 23 July 2023. Respondent has reinstated the video after dismissing my takedown notice of 26 July 2023 and refusing to comply. Original copyright work has been published publicly and it is available on Youtube since 29 March 2021: https://youtu.be/G8n3EgUlzyw | Youtube sided with the uploader and refused to cooperate when provided with required documents. Uploader is located in USA according to Youtube. But Youtube provided a UK based address of the Uploader on the counter notification claim, with a full knowledge that legal action cannot be taken and infringement claims on eCCB cannot be filed if the respondent is not based in USA. Youtube made it impossible for me to file 2nd copyright infringement by restricting a second takedown on 22 September 2023, by raising this flag "This video has already been submitted in a previous takedown request". I seek $5,000 in damages and also seek the removal of all infringing content of my copyrighted work from Youtube. | Closed | Hassan H Naqvi | none | Google LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0319 | infringement | An illustration showing a foot from the front, with a doctor's gloved hand holding the pinky toe away from the other toes, revealing visible fungal infection. | The unauthorized use of three of our images on one page of the familypodiatryofmd.com website (specifically, the page http://www.familypodiatryofmd.com/athletesfoot_types.html as shown in the accompanying document title "Nucleus Medical Media v. Family Podiatry of Maryland.pdf"). The infringements were discovered on 3/7/23 through a TinEye search. According to the TinEye index, infringing use of our image began on or about September 26th, 2013. This site (www.familypodiatryofmd.com) does not currently have and never has had a license to use our images through Nucleus Medical Media. No third parties have ever been given permission to re-license that image. Nucleus has made the image identified by si55551940 available for license since March 14th, 2001 and has licensed it 3 times since then (none of which were respondent). Nucleus has made the image identified by si55551940 available for license since July 28th, 2008 and has licensed it 2 times since then (none of which were respondent). Nucleus has made the image identified by si55551177 available for license since March 14th, 2001 and has licensed it 3 times since then (none of which were respondent). In all three cases estab | We were prevented from collecting license fees for the image for respondent's use. The value of such a license for three images used one time each and over the time period they are confirmed to have been used is $3,510.00. That amount is the relief we are seeking. | Certified | Nucleus Medical Media, Inc. | none | Family Podiatry of Maryland | Second Notice |
| 23-CCB-0318 | infringement | Photo of a person on the cell phone in an open field | Respondent reposted an image from the Washington Post at: https://redice.tv/news/israeli-government-to-refugees-go-back-to-africa-or-go-to-prison | Monetary damages and/or infringer's profits | Closed | David Vaaknin | The Brickell IP Group, PLLC | Red Ice TV | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0317 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | My story | Rape attempted murder and stolen funds | Stress, personal injury property damages and monetary loss | Closed | ReMax | none | Wendy Clensy | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0316 | infringement | Image and Text I created with my own idea for online publication | This Chinese YouTuber is copying every title and thumbnail of mine. It takes hard efforts to come up with the right titles and thumbnails. Some of the thumbnails and titles are exactly the same as mine. Some of them are only derivative works. (Only changed a bit, but it's easy to see this man copied my idea) | I have been getting many reports from my subscribers that this channel is copying my works (Almost 20 copied works so far). My subscribers have been clicking his videos thinking that it's mine (because the thumbnails and texts are exactly the same). My channel's views get split to this guy thus less profits for me. Plus, I have been under enormous stress that this man will keep copying my works in the future. That is why I want to stop him now before this leads to a even bigger problem. | Closed | Ga Eun Moon | none | Peng Yang | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0315 | infringement | Photo of Arthur Russell sitting cross legged on the beach with a microphone | Tom Lee and Steve Knutson have knowingly used this photo over and over again, without my knowledge or permission, claiming that Tom, Lee took it. Tom Lee knew that Arthur is wearing my sweater and sunglasses in this photo and had even told me in the past that he didn't like my photos because you couldn't see his eyes. Arthur Russell died in 1992, and Steve Knutson and Tom Lee have been actively promoting different versions of his remixed music since then. This image is recognizable by any Arthur Russell fan , internationally, at this point. | Tom Lee would have never told me about this infringement if a book company didn't force him to tell the truth about who took it when they wanted to use my photo in their book. When he did tell me of its use, he failed to mention the CD cover. After I discovered it, he promised it was published just once when it had been twice. When I asked them to fix it, Steve Knutson went around to the various online articles and changed the credits, years after the articles were written-too little too late. I have thought long and hard about taking any legal action against them and decided I really need to. I have been very stressed out by all of this and just want to put an end to the crime they are committing. I would also like them fined the standard amount for this type of infringement times two, because they put this album out twice knowing that Tom did not take the photograph. I would like them to recall all of the Corn CD"s and records with this picture on it , prevent them from using it ever again. I would like them to redesign the cover so it does not include this photo. They have exploited this photo. Tom Lee is an entitled misogynist who has no problem giving men photo credits! | Certified | Stephanie McGuire, ms | none | Tom Lee | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0314 | infringement | Images of Pendleton, Oregon | I discovered the images that were being used while reading articles online in the Oregonian newspaper. It was surprising as the infringement had been going on for quite sometime. I contacted the people who were running the campaign, they admitted to the infringement, then refused to pay for the use. The images were taken down, but only after a demand letter was sent. | These images were used without my permission and without proper attribution. I suffered harm as it is unknown how long and to what extent the images were used as I make my living solely as a photographer and this kind of use is part of my livelihood. The attribution was to Travel Pendleton, so there was no secondary benefit to promote me as the author. I lost significant income as a result. The irony is that it is a Chamber of Commerce that is the infringer - an organization whose mission it is to promote business in the state of Oregon. | Certified | Susan Seubert | none | Pendleton Chamber of Commerce | Payment of Second Filing Fee |
| 23-CCB-0313 | infringement | Physical structure of child-friendly storage bag with visibility | Except for elements of the design that are not copyrightable such as the simple texture used for the outer edge of the item and the grey color that has been used without any creative element thereto, all elements of the original work have been infringed by the infringing item. Specifically, (1) the location of the mesh bag for storing manuals and small flat parts was exactly copied, along with its size relative to the front part that is transparent, which has been purposefully chosen to increase the visibility; (2) the placement of the name tag on the sidewall, its purpose to function as a side labeling system, its relative size to the overall sidewall of the item have been exactly copied; (3) the dimensional specifications of the infringing item closely mimic or are a verbatim copy of the item being infringed upon; and (4) the PVC material on the front, which was purposefully chosen by the creator of the work to make the contents visible from the outside, was exactly copied. | It is unknown to me how many of the infringing products have been sold so far by the infringer. Accordingly, I do not have concrete knowledge of the amount of harm I suffered due to the infringement except for the time and money I spent to seek legal help. I seek USD 1,000 for the said harm. I also respectfully ask the Board to stop the infringer from selling the infringing product and order the infringer to discard all remaining items so that none thereof would be on the market to harm the product category to which my design belongs. | Closed | Eunju Lee | ETTEM LAW | Diana Lam | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0312 | infringement | CPAP Pillow Demonstration | Plaintiff's Works/Images were unlawfully copied on various websites that sell the CPAP Pillow pictured in the attached Exhibits/Images. Plaintiff's Works/Images were unlawfully copied onto packaging for Defendants' competing CPAP Pillow, and CPAP Pillowcases, as they were sold from the US, within the US, and internationally. Defendants are estimated to have sold between 7,967 and 47,800 pillows, at least based on Amazon reviews and ratings, which are typically provided by 1-3% of purchasers. Defendant Peter Lei sold products with the infringing products prior to the creation of his LLC, Lumia Products Co. LLC. See attached Exhibit 5. For example, the Amazon listings indicated his Pillow Products were available since January 2018, but Lumia Products Co. LLC was created August 2018. Therefore Defendant Peter Lei should be personally liable for willful copyright infringement. - Plaintiff's works included images of himself demonstrating Plaintiff's own pillow product, thereby further indicating the egregiousness of Defendants' copying of Plaintiff's works. | - Loss of income, loss of sales, loss of market share, loss of at least any reasonable license for utilizing the works. Damages are estimated to be approximately $125,000, which is justified based on (1) a percentage of estimated profits from the use of the copyrighted materials, or (2) a reasonable licensing fee as per the Association of Photographers' standards. - Diversion of web traffic from plaintiff's authorized retailers and websites to the defendants' websites. - Loss of time (400-500 hours) and money attempting to fight the infringement in courts since 2019, including small claims in California (dismissed for improper venue), federal court (dismissed without prejudice), and preparing a case with the ITC. Plaintiff kindly requests tolling of the statute of limitations for copyright infringement in view of plaintiff's prior attempts to address the copyright infringement pro se and through other venues. | Certified | Todd Deetsch | Cummins IP PLLC | Lumia Products Co LLC | Waiver of Service - Peter Lei - Signed |
| 23-CCB-0311 | infringement | 1970 film produced by Beast of Blood Company directed by Eddie Romero and filmed in the Philippines. Copyright renewed with copyright number RE 810-261 May 20, 1999. | Tubi, via its distribution network, including its streaming application (app) and its website on the internet (www.tubitv.com) on a recurring basis, has been repeatedly promoting, marketing, advertising, distributing unauthorized direct copies of Independent-International Pictures Corp's (IIP) exclusive copyrighted motion pictures, including but not limited to, THE BLOOD DRINKERS, BEAST OF BLOOD and MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND. The digital copies of the feature length films, each running approximately 90 minutes, made, distributed and exhibited by Tubi were created from previous older home video releases from Image Entertainment as legally licensed from IIP, which license for physical media only has long expired. The Image Entertainment tangible home video releases of THE BLOOD DRINKERS, MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND and BEAST OF BLOOD were widely distributed and available to the public for purchase in 2002 and 2004. IIP's home video license for physical media only with Image Entertainment has long expired but physical copies are still available for resale online and elsewhere via Ebay, Amazon and others.The attached screen grab from Tubi showing THE BLOOD DRINKERS features IIP's n | Tubi is infringing on IIP's exclusive world-wide digital/streaming rights and causing confusion in the marketplace by exhibiting and distributing the films in digital media in the United States and various countries around the world. IIP is seeking maximum damages for the claim on the four films THE BLOOD DRINKERS, BEAST OF BLOOD, MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND and HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS and accounting for all distribution, downloads, receipts, territories, outlets and a list of the advertisers and the commercial spots which ran during the exhibition of IIP's four films. As well as an injunction against Tubi's further use of IIP's properties and their destruction of any digital files that they produced and distributed and removal of any digital files on any and all servers will be required. And a full accounting of where and who supplied unauthorized digital copies of IIP's copyrighted films. Samuel M. Sherman, president of IIP has a long and storied history with Hemisphere and its films as their marketing executive in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Sherman created the marketing and publicity campaigns for the films MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, BEAST OF BLOOD and many other films | Certified | Independent-International Pictures Corp. | none | Tubi | Second Notice sent on 12/07/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0310 | infringement | Claimant is the creator, developer, and registered copyright holder of Winning Isn’t Normal, which was copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 (Registration No. TX2672644.) (see: Exhibit 1 - Copyright) A section of claimant’s book: Winning Isn’t Normal, also titled: “Winning Isn’t Normal” (herein referred to as “WIN”) appears on page 8 of the INTRODUCTION of Winning Isn’t Normal (See Exhibit 2- the text of WIN) and is the heart of the book. In fact, the book was built around WIN. (see: Exhibit 3 - Inception) The rest of the book consists of examples and extensions of claimant’s WIN philosophy. Claimant’s WIN philosophy is claimant’s original, creative expression of what claimant believes is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and in all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. | 1. Through claimant’s diligent efforts to identify unauthorized uses of the work, on February 23, 2022 claimant discovered that on or about November 23, 2020, a date after the work was copyrighted and registered; respondents duplicated, posted, disseminated, and displayed “WIN” on Bankers Life Regional Director, Chris Lewis’s, commercial social media account without authorization. [Exhibit-4_infringing post] 2. Respondents’ posts are near identical to almost 100% of the section of the work, which appears on page 8 of the INTRODUCTION of the work: WIN. [Exhibits: 2&4] 3. Respondents’ posts were instantaneously disseminated to respondents’ customers and 4,725 Followers [Exhibit-4_followers] as well as displayed to everyone in the world with access to the Internet. Claimant believes that respondents’ uses of the work and of WIN do not qualify for any legal exemptions to display. 4. Further, respondents induced others to repost/share WIN with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized disseminations of WIN which caused a cascade of unauthorized distributions. 5. Respondents market themselves as: one of the industry’s largest providers of Medicare Supplement a | 1. Claimant only permits use of claimant’s copyrighted work by way of a purchase of a copy of the work at $41.90 multiplied by: — the number of copies of the work and/or WIN made — the number of copies of the work and/or WIN distributed in any manner, by any means, including by any technology, or any other means — the number of persons to whom the work and/or WIN was publicly displayed — the number of any other means or uses 2. Any public display of the work and or WIN is instantaneously distributed to the current number of persons who have access to the Internet. Claimant believes that respondents’ uses of Winning Isn’t Normal do not qualify for any legal exemptions to display. 3. Moreover, respondent has encouraged others to duplicate, distribute, and display WIN by inviting them to share/repost WIN: many of whom have gone on to post/share/display WIN as if it were their own creation. 4. The work has continued to sell every year since it was first made available for sale. In fact, the work sold thousands of copies through pre-publication mail-outs before it was printed. The work continues to sell in 2023 although little or no marketing has been done for years, | Certified | Keith F. Bell | none | Chris Lewis | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0309 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Loss of profits related to the use of the copyrighted photograph and videos. | Closed | Floatsup, LLC | Doniger / Burroughs | Floatsup, LLC | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Barring Party and Attorney and Dismissing Claims |
| 23-CCB-0308 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Loss of profits related to the use of the copyrighted photograph and videos. | Closed | Floatsup, LLC | Doniger / Burroughs | Floatsup, LLC | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Barring Party and Attorney and Dismissing Claims |
| 23-CCB-0307 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Loss of profits related to the use of the copyrighted photograph and videos. | Closed | Floatsup, LLC | Doniger / Burroughs | Floatsup, LLC | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Barring Party and Attorney and Dismissing Claims |
| 23-CCB-0306 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Loss of profits related to the use of the copyrighted photograph and videos. | Closed | Floatsup, LLC | Doniger / Burroughs | Floatsup, LLC | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Barring Party and Attorney and Dismissing Claims |
| 23-CCB-0305 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Loss of profits related to the use of the copyrighted photograph and videos. | Closed | Floatsup, LLC | Doniger / Burroughs | Floatsup, LLC | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Barring Party and Attorney and Dismissing Claims |
| 23-CCB-0304 | infringement | entire motion picture | Respondent is distributing my copyrighted motion picture as video to rent or buy on demand currently on the Amazon Prime platform. We previously had a contract for Eye Film Releasing to distribute but that contract expired as of October last year. I have asked the president, Mr. Robert Feinstein, to cease and desist ongoing distribution. Initially he promised to do so but has failed to do so to date, despite my repeated asks of him. He now refuses even to acknowledge that my property continues to be available on that platform through his company's label. Despite my repeated emails alerting him to the fact that he is not authorized to distribute my property and my asking him to stop, beginning with my email on August 23, 2023, he continues to infringe on my copyright for profit. | The respondents are continuing and knowingly exploiting my copyrighted motion picture film without my permission for their own monetary gain, despite my repeated asks of them to cease and desist. Respondents have failed to ever provide any accounting for profits made by their distribution, including for their unlawful distribution the last 11 months. They refuse to cooperate in removing the material despite my attempts to alert them of the unlawful activity. I am therefore seeking punitive monetary compensation of $5,000, the maximum allowed. | Certified | Joshua P Wick | none | Robert Feinstein | Service packet for Eye Film Releasing, Inc. |
| 23-CCB-0303 | infringement | Claimant is the creator, developer, and registered copyright holder of Winning Isn’t Normal, which was copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 (Registration No. TX 0002672644.) [Exhibit-1]. The text at issue, also titled “Winning Isn’t Normal” (herein referred to as ”WIN”) is claimant’s original, creative expression of claimant’s philosophy of what claimant believes is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and in all other endeavors in which success is desirable. WIN is not factual. WIN appears on p.8 [Exhibit-2] in the INTRODUCTION of “Winning Isn’t Normal” and is the heart of the book. In fact, the work was built around WIN. The rest of the work consists of examples and extensions of claimant’s WIN philosophy. [Exhibit-3] | 1. Through claimant’s diligent efforts to identify unauthorized uses of Winning Isn’t Normal, on February 14, 2021 claimant discovered that on February 11, 2021, a date after claimant’s book “Winning Isn’t Normal” was copyrighted and registered; respondents duplicated, posted, disseminated, and displayed “WIN” on their commercial website. [Exhibits: 4,5,6] 2. Respondents’ posts are near identical, and clearly substantially similar, (only changing ”it’s” to “it is” and “relay” to “team”) to almost 100% of the section of the work, which appears on page 8: WIN. [Exhibits: 2&4] 3. Respondents’ posts were instantaneously disseminated to respondents’ customers and Followers as well as displayed to everyone in the world with access to the Internet. Further, respondents induced others to repost/share WIN with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized disseminations of WIN which caused a cascade of unauthorized distributions of WIN. 4. Winning Isn’t Normal was additionally advertised on Auto Dealer University Contributors’ blog pages. [Exhibits: 7,8,9,10,11]. Auto Dealer University boasts “30+ Contributors” [Exhibit-12] 5. Respondents market themselves as: “One | 1. The only permitted use of claimant’s copyrighted work, Winning Isn’t Normal, is to purchase a copy of Winning Isn’t Normal at $41.90 multiplied by: the number of copies made; the number of copies distributed in any manner by any means including by any technology; the number to whom Winning Isn’t Normal was publicly displayed; or any other means or uses. 2. Any public display is instantaneously distributed to the current number of persons who have access to the Internet. Claimant believes that respondents’ uses of Winning Isn’t Normal do not qualify for any legal exemptions to display. 3. Moreover, respondent has encouraged others to duplicate, distribute, and display WIN by inviting them to share/repost WIN: many of whom have gone on to post/share/display WIN as if it were their own creation. 4. The work has continued to sell every year since it was first made available for sale. In fact, the work sold thousands of copies through pre-publication mail-outs before it was printed. The work continues to sell in 2023 although little or no marketing has been done for years, beyond its presence on winningisntnormal.com. 5. Had respondents purchased Winning Isn’t Normal at $ | Certified | Keith F. Bell | none | Auto Dealer University | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0302 | infringement | Design of a Foldable Stem for BMX Handlebars and Heavy E-bikes | The X1 Stem Design developed by Me, Raymond Charles Philip, My Company is X-tems (www.x-tems.com) I am led to believe that Mr. David Brandon willingly made a 100% copy without our authorization which is copyrighted work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and The Berne Convention International Copyright Treaty. The works that are infringing can be described as follows: Your Turtle Neck SHORTY has all components, processing and Manufacturing same as ours. The design is a 100% a copy of ours, even the latest revisions were also copied ( top cap and lever change ) that we already revised but didn't announce. I believe that he somehow was able to steal the design thru our sub-manufacturers. We developed our work starting 2020, its been a 3 year work, of reasearch, testing, re-designing and market surveying. My. Brandon was also aware of our product since he messaged us during our unveiling on Facebook. We have the screenshots, and all evidence relevant to this and our product development, design development and prototype testing. My work was registered with the independent witness, ProtectMyWork.com on 14 th November 2022 and 23 rd August 23, 2 | The Major issue on the damages is to our image, we are a new company that has the X1 Stem as our base product for the entire line of products that are being release shortly. Damages, There is also the damages to our sales and defamation. | Closed | Raymond Charles T Philip | none | David R. Brandon, Mr | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0301 | infringement-DMCA | The work is a close up photograph of two approximately ten-stem bunches of pastel colored Ranunculus flowers, specifically of the Italian Ranunculus variety Elegance Pastello (R), which are also sold as part of a pastel mix offered by Onings Holland Inc named 'La Dolce Vita.' In the image the bunches are held in my left hand and the background is the concrete slab in one of my work areas. | The work is a close up photograph of two approximately ten-stem bunches of pastel colored Ranunculus flowers, specifically of the Italian Ranunculus variety Elegance Pastello ®, which are also sold as part of a pastel mix offered by Onings Holland Inc named 'La Dolce Vita.' In the image, the bunches are held in my left hand and the background is the concrete slab in one of my work areas. I took the photograph with my iPhone on 2/23/22 of ranunculus grown and harvested on my farm, Full Keel Farm LLC, and published it to my public Instagram account @fullkeelfarm on that date. I am an owner and authorized representative for Full Keel Farm LLC. On 2/27/22 the image was posted to three Instagram accounts managed by Onings Holland Inc, the wholesale supplier I purchase ranunculus corms through, with written permission and attribution to my Instagram account via tag, comment and watermark. There was an additional watermark for 'Italian Ranunculus' added to the image, which includes a semi-transparent white half dome across the bottom of the image. These accounts area @oningsamerica, @italian_ranunculus, and @henk_onings. The specific links to the posts and screenshots will be included in | I am seeking statutory damages in response to the unauthorized use of the work. There are significant production costs and labor associated with growing a specialty cut flower crop like Ranunculus, and it is challenging to produce high quality stems that can be photographed as excellent examples of a specific cultivar. The particular variety in this photograph is of a newer offering, and I was among the first growers in the US to grow it as a cut flower crop and photograph it, meaning that there were limited images online of this cultivar at the time I first published it. I use the photographs I take of my cut flower crops to market them to florists for cut flower sales. These photographs are an important part of the sales process, because they demonstrate the color, stem length and overall flower quality of my specific product. It is critical that florists trust that the photos I am providing along with my written description and pricing are my photographs of my crop and not just a generic photo of that particular cultivar. If my florist customers see the photo on another site without attribution, especially a sales site, they may be less inclined to believe that the photos I a | Closed | Julia Keel | none | Fuirk Home, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0300 | infringement | Music cover art work | Female recording Gorilla live performance display my music cover art image in background | My Likeness and image destroyed seek maximum compensation and punitive damages and all other relief the board feels is just and proper. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Denaro Puro LLC | none | Black Entertainment Television Llc | Order Granting Request to Link Jamaal Russ with the Denaro Puro LLC party |
| 23-CCB-0299 | infringement-DMCA | Sound Recording and composition | Uploaded in social media, and distribute in Music Store's | Uploaded in social media, and distribute in Music Store's they damaged our business. | Closed | Dark Lab Records Ltd | none | Michael Giles | DownloadFinding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0298 | infringement | Art picture illustrating a usage of Wireless Tow Lights | The art work with a copyright number # VA 2-199-304 is identical to the art work in currently viewable online adds.as described above in this document. | We are the original manufacturer of "Wireless Tow Lights" any copying of our work (such as our advertising art) reduces/limits our viability. It is a direct violation of the copyright rules. | Certified | Wireless Tow Lights Inc | none | ESAFETY LIGHTS, LLC | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0297 | infringement | Original Soundrecordings by Al Hadraa Band | The uploader is violating our client's copyright by distributing their content without a license, while the respondent is reinstating these videos and refusing to comply. | YouTube sided with the uploader and refused to cooperate when provided with the required documents to demonstrate that we were taking legal action against the uploader. YouTube LLC requested us to submit an eCCB claim, and in return, they would comply and remove the content. Despite submitting the required document, YouTube LLC refused to comply and reinstated the content. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | VideoHat LLC | none | Google LLC | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 221.1(b) pending the outcome of the applications for registration of copyright in the works at issue in the proceeding. While the decisions of the registration division of the Copyright Office are completely separate from the CCB, if the claimant would like to request that the Office of Registration conduct an expedited review of the applications for registration, the Board grants claimant permission to make such a request via eCCB. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf. In determining whether to request expedited registration, the claimant may wish to consider the Copyright Office’s current registration processing times at https://copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf. |
| 23-CCB-0296 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service re Case Number: 23-ccb-0296 |
| 23-CCB-0295 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service DOCKET NO. 23-CCB-0295 |
| 23-CCB-0294 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service - DOCKET NO. 23-CCB-0294 |
| 23-CCB-0293 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000.The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caus | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service - DOCKET NO. 23-CCB-0293 |
| 23-CCB-0292 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service Case Number: 23-CCB-0292 |
| 23-CCB-0291 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service - Case Number: 23-CCB-0291 |
| 23-CCB-0290 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | proof of service - DOCKET NO. 23-CCB-0290 |
| 23-CCB-0289 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | Order to Pay Second Filing Fee and For All Parties to Register For eCCB |
| 23-CCB-0288 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | Order to Pay Second Filing Fee and For All Parties to Register For eCCB |
| 23-CCB-0287 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | Second Notice sent on 12/07/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0286 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | Second Notice sent on 12/07/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0285 | infringement | None given | The Respondent uploaded electronic computer files for free distribution on the platform cult3d.com. Those files contain 3D-models of works copyrighted by the Claimant. The Respondent extracted those 3D-models from Claimant’s computer game Total Warhammer and converted them into file formats utilized by 3D-printers. Simultaneously, the Respondent maintains an account on patreon.com, where users have the option to subscribe to his profile for a monthly fee of $8. The Respondent’s subscribers receive access to basically the same files as on cult3d.com, but with an additional structural support. It is important to note that without a fitting support structure, prints created from the files on cult3d.com are not suitable to create replicas of the copyrighted works as they would collapse during the printing process. The files on Patreon allow to directly print exact replicas of the copyrighted works of the Claimant. The Respondent shows the 3D-prints subscribers can achieve with his help on Instagram (s. Exhibit 1). He advertises his Patreon account on www.cult3d.com (s. Exhibit 2) and vice versa (s. Exhibit 3). A comparison of the copyrighted work and 3D-models created and owned | The copyrighted work retails for amounts between $100 and several hundred U.S. Dollars. 3D printing has had a significant impact on all forms of intellectual property. The Respondent's actions amplify the damages caused by this technology and he does so for profit. In August, the Respondent had more than a 1,000 subscribers. Currently, he has 877 subscribers with numbers rising around 15-25 on a daily basis. His monthly earnings per subscriber are $6,60. The Respondent is currently the 57th most successful Patreon creator worldwide in the 3D-printing category, and the 2,427th overall (out of a total of 228,000+ creators). We estimate the harm done by the Respondent’s actions through his activities on Patreon alone to exceed the maximum amount Claimant can ask for. However, we must also consider earnings from direct sales of prints made by the Respondent as well as sales on ETSY, where the Respondent sold prints for $65. The Claimant seeks the maximum amount of $30,000. | Certified | Games Workshop Limited | H. Roske & Associates LLP | Eamann M Ghasemy | Second Notice sent on 12/07/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0284 | infringement-DMCA | Photo | Idemeet Offical used my photo for desing of their product package (Car Drying Towel) without my permission and added the logo of their brand “Idemeet” on it. I found out that Idemeet Offical has been selling their products since tenth of June 2023 in USA (https://www.amazon.com/Absorbent-Chamois-Vehicle-Upholstery-Cleaning/dp/B0BYDFL8CB?th=1). See attachment A. The violation was accompanied by my complaints on Amazon marketplace (See attachment B, which was made on July 27th ) and photo evidence of Idemeet Offical original packaging with my copyrighted photo is attached. See attachment C. On August 14th , the above product was challenged over the use of my copyrighted photo on product packaging. The complaint was approved by Amazon, all variations of that product were blocked. See attachment D. On August 17th , CEO of Idemeet Offical, Jimmy sent a letter and told that he completely understood that it`s their fault to use unauthorized images. See attachment E. But on August 24th , I have received a counter notice from an Amazon seller where the seller of Idemeet Official Gong Ying provided false statements that infringement was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or m | Considering that the desing is an important part of the business and that the brand has been operating for 3 months (since tenth of June 2023) and sells at least 50 products a day (see attachment A) for about 20 dollars, I expect to refund $ 2,000 that consists of 50% of profit and $ 500 for lawyer's services. I have been harmed by the activities because I didn`t get any refund or royalty for using my photos. Also, the public remains in the dark that I am an author of the photo. Idemeet Offical allowed himself to create a derivative of my work and distort it without my consent. Amazon has been misled by an unfair counter notice. The notice and takedown procedures provided by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act were used to promote unfair competition and my copyright was cynically infringed. | Closed | Yaroslav Moroz | none | Idemeet Offical | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0283 | infringement | A pink, orange, yellow, and blue shooting star with navy blue and pink text that says "You guys ever think about dying?" | I created an original design to make vinyl stickers, which I listed for sale on Etsy. After my listing gained popularity, another seller took my design, very slightly altered it (horizontally flipped the background), and started selling shirts featuring my design. When I filed a report of copyright infringement with Etsy, the individual filed a counter notice, forcing me to now provide proof of a court action seeking a court order against the allegedly infringing member in order to keep them from continuing to profit off of my design. | The infringer is profiting off of my work, without seeking the appropriate license to do so. Additionally, it has now cost me $125 in copyright registration and clam fees to get them to stop. | Closed | Amanda Johnson | none | Edward Mekbel | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0282 | infringement | live recording of a performance by Michelle Shocked at Yoshi's Jazz Club in San Francisco March 17, 2013 | 1. On March 17, 2013, Carol Chen, a YouTube engineer, recorded an audio-only bootleg of my live concert at Yoshi’s San Francisco and, acting on her own initiative, uploaded the encore of my concert to her YouTube channel @carolcheny on March 18, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWBgd57a0hutC2Oh4oN42IA 2. The audiovisual content Carol Chen uploaded to YouTube was titled, "FULL CLIP: Michelle Shocked Homophobic Rant at Yoshi’s San Francisco" youtu.be/bL-8kSj7TtY 3. The sound recording of the March 17, 2013 live concert encore at Yoshi's in San Francisco was registered with the Copyright Office. It includes a transcript, and was registered as a single work. I am the sole author and rights owner. 4. The sound recording registered with the Copyright Office, "Michelle Shocked 'Truth Vs. Reality: Bootleg This' Encore at Yoshi's SF Mar 17 2013," SRu001429224, was copied from the audiovisual content, "FULL CLIP: Michelle Shocked Homophobic Rant at Yoshi’s San Francisco," uploaded to @carolcheny by Carol Chen, a YouTube engineer. 5. The registered sound recording includes two musical works, also performed during my live concert encore on March 17, 2013, "Other People" and " | Subsequent to YouTube engineer Carol Chen's uploaded bootleg content to YouTube channel @carolcheny "FULL CLIP: Michelle Shocked Homophobic Rant at Yoshi’s San Francisco" youtu.be/bL-8kSj7TtY on March 18, 2013 being broadcast on David Pakman's YouTube channel @https://www.youtube.com/@thedavidpakmanshow, "'God Hates Fags' Rant Leads to Singer Michelle Shocked's Tour Canceled," youtu.be/WxtknKuH-9U on March 21, 2013 I was blacklisted/defamed/cancelled/censored/silenced/disrupted/nullified/scrubbed/aborted/abrogated/voided/scrubbed/buried alive. All tour dates booked prior to this event were cancelled, and I have been blacklisted/unable to book/perform concert tours since that date. In each of the previous five years, from 2009 until 2013, I was able to book and perform 80+ tour dates a year. The loss of my tour income alone far exceeds the cap of the $15,000 per work set for statutory damages under the C.A.S.E. Act. I am seeking full statutory relief. | Awaiting amendment/certification | Michelle Shocked | none | YouTube | Order to Amend Noncompliant Claim |
| 23-CCB-0281 | infringement | It's a graphic design used for multiple Montana Treasures® printed products, including wall signs and T-shirts. | The offending, derivative design is so close in nature and layout to my original 'Madison River Trout Country' wall sign design that, upon first inspection, both myself and my sister thought they were identical. The second artist made little effort to differentiate their design. The 'Madison River' text was replaced with original 'Bozeman' text; but, other than that, the overall layout, design elements, and even the navy blue color was retained. The primary reason for submitting this claim is that the second artist created a design too substantially similar to my original design, which I created back in 2016 for my Montana Treasures® online store. Here is a link to my original 'Madison River Trout Country' design: https://montana-treasures.com/collections/new-wall-signs/products/pristine-madison-river-sign Again, here is a link to the second artist's offending, derivative design: https://barefootcampusoutfitter.com/product/boz-trout-country-2/ | The originality of Montana Treasures® designs is what I am selling on my online store. By merely altering my design while keeping my layout, the second artist is devaluing my content and products, including t-shirts and sweatshirts with the 'Madison River Trout Country' logo. I fear that the second artist has plans to create even more derivative designs based off of Montana Treasures wall sign designs. I am asking that Barefoot Campus Outfitter immediately cease selling and displaying (in public and online) the aforementioned offending, derivative design. I want the name and contact information for the "second artist" who designed the offending, derivative design. I want a promise from Barefoot Campus Design that they will no longer use the design services of the second artist. | Certified | Thomas T Rivers | none | Katy Copeland | Payment of Second Filing Fee |
| 23-CCB-0280 | infringement | Written course on financial help and trusts. | The infringer most likely purchased our program and wanted to sell it for themselves. Claimant will submit evidence showing how videos, documents and more have been 1:1 copied and sold through their websites. | We are seeking the full amount. The number of lost customers is uncountable, but since our program sells for $997 per person we can reasonably attest that we have lost AT LEAST 5 SALES due to this copyright infringer's activities. | Certified | Private Wealth Academy | none | Tedrick Derosin | Waiver of Service Packet |
| 23-CCB-0279 | infringement | A glass of Brendan Tracey Millesìme 2015 alongside a selection of natural French wines, including Ad Vinum Bim 2017, at Night + Market Sahm's Venice location, Los Angeles, California | Infringers copied my photograph Corson-NMSahm-3310 in the 2019 issue of FoodService in Paradise on page 30. The photograph is credited "PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA CORSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES," but the photograph was not licensed by The New York Times or me for this use. Infringers created a printed magazine for the food service industry and is also displaying a digital version of the magazine online, which is still available today at Sysco Hawaii's Issu account https://issuu.com/hfmfoodservice/docs/fsip_2019_issue_1_final_3 . I had an attorney contact Sysco about this infringement, but they did not respond except to say that they would look into it. The entire article that contains my photograph appears to be copied from a licensed use by The New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/dining/food-trends-predictions-2019.html . My contact at the New York Times confirmed to me that the use by Infringers was not licensed by them. (We are both contractually allowed to license the image, with NYT sharing revenue with me, but I am also allowed to act alone.) | I am a professional photographer who licenses images for use by companies as part of my business. I have lost income from this unlicensed use of my image. Sysco used my image commercially to promote their business to other businesses in the food service industry. They did so in a print magazine which distributed an unknown number of copies, as well as in a digital version and public display of that magazine online. I can't calculate a usage fee without knowing the scope of their use. I also seek profits derived from the unlicensed use of my image. In addition to B2B business generated by the use, display, and distribution of my image, the display of the digital issue on Issu.com is also monetized via web ads. "Issuu.com is a digital publishing platform that allows creators to share, discover, and monetize digital magazines, catalogs and other publications with a global audience." | Certified | Lisa Corson | none | Sysco Corporation | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0278 | infringement | Professional photo of equestrian facility barn at night | A professional photo was taken under the direct oversight of Alko Equestrian Center's representative, Doriane Woolley. The preview was then forwarded to Alko Equestrian Center, LLC for purchasing consideration. I was later informed they had opted against buying the photo rights. However, I discovered they began utilizing the photo for promotional purposes shortly after their decision not to purchase. Despite two demand letters sent, the photo remained in use up to December 8th, 2022 — a total of 28 months across platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and their official website. I am seeking reimbursement for these 28 months at a rate of $175 per month, totaling $4900. This figure is notably lower than my standard commercial rate and aligns with typical charges. I've previously offered a discounted amount in demand letters and during a small claims court hearing. The judge acknowledged the clear infringement but advised pursuing the claim with the CCB due to jurisdictional limitations. Alko Equestrian Center, LLC willfully profited directly and indirectly from professional photographic work produced by me that they used without my permission for 28 months. | I am seeking reimbursement for these 28 months at a rate of $175 per month, totaling $4900. This figure is notably lower than my standard commercial rate and aligns with typical charges. I've previously offered a discounted amount in demand letters and during a small claims court hearing. The judge acknowledged the clear infringement but advised pursuing the claim with the CCB due to jurisdictional limitations. Alko Equestrian Center, LLC willfully profited directly and indirectly from professional photographic work produced by me that they used without my permission for 28 months. I lost a significant amount of income due to their unlawful use of a clearly professional photo. They used several other professional photos owned by me that I posted on my business social media accounts and copied them without my permission and used for their direct profit and advertising. They were also asked to remove these imaged from their advertising. | Closed | Lisa N Hermes | none | Alko Equestrian Center, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0277 | -DMCA | NA | NA | This ETSY Shop is using my photographs, which I took, and have been using for years. These photos generate a lot of traffic, views and sales, (teacup photo generates $100K in sales annually, and 360K views, the plates photo generates $78K in sales annually, and $220K views) Her listings, using the same exact photographs, confuses customers that see my promotions outside of ETSY. They 'search' ETSY to purchase my listing with the same photos, and end up on her listing. She posts my photos in social media and 'for sale' listings. She is making a profit by using my photos. I demand that she forfeits any sales she has made using my photographs. I demand that all my material/photos be removed from her social media and sales platforms. | Closed | Camila Turati | none | Mariana McLennan | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0276 | infringement | Me speaking on live videos on my channel and posting pictures of me | I'm a content creature on YouTube that create my own videos and post pictures of me on my channel to better connect with audience. Destiny Jenkins went to my channel and screen recorded a video of me talking and conversing with my channel and used my material with my voice on her channel in order to bash and tear down my brand. The violations haven't stop, because I filed a claim with YouTube she's now posting my material of ME all over Instagram trying to tarnish my brand. She was sent a ceist and Desist asking her not to post me, my material, my personal information, my brand or my business. Destiny Jenkins recorded a live saying F me she does what she wants to do. I'm requesting her to remove all of my copyrighted material and infringing material. I don't and didn't give Destiny Jenkins (Real talk with DJ) permission to use any of my material including my voice recordings of me, my pictures and my business. | She has attacked my business painting a untrue narrative about me and my business. Because of her actions me and my family continue to be Doxxed, Threatened, Harassed, Slowed down my clientele because she's still violating my brand. | Closed | Tawani Curtis | none | Destiny G Jenkins | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0275 | infringement | Documentary | The respondent used 100% of the information and writings from "The Life Of An 11-Year-Old Gang Member - Raul R. Ramos" to create a public video that was published online. The respondent also published in his video numerous personal photographs that were taken from the documentary. | The respondent is misrepresenting, "The Life Of An 11-Year-Old Gang Member - Raul R. Ramos" documentary as his own work. This is taking from the documentary's validity, which affects it's revenue. The request is that the respondent immediately stop this activity by removing his video from all public websites. | Closed | Paige Eagle | none | Martin Ptacek | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0274 | infringement-DMCA | Literary work entitled "Fences & Retaining Walls" 1990 edition | Petitioner Craftsman Book Company of America, Inc. (“Petitioner”) is a book publication company. Petitioner authored and printed the book “Fences and Retaining Wall” in 1990 (“1990 Book Edition”), and obtained a copyright registration for the book from the U.S. Copyright Office.” A correct and accurate copy of Copyright Registration No. TX2882408 is attached hereto as the document entitled “Copyright Registration TX2882408.pdf.” Petitioner’s 1990 Book Edition was reprinted several times and revised in 2012 (“2012 Book Edition”). Petitioner’s 2012 Book Edition was distributed by Petitioner in digital form only. Petitioner obtained copyright registration from the U.S. Copyright Office for its Petitioner’s 2012 Book Edition. A correct and accurate copy of Copyright Registration No. TX9302308 is attached hereto as the document entitled “Copyright Registration TX9302308.pdf.” About 13,000 copies of Petitioner’s book entitled “Fences and Retaining Walls” have been printed and sold by Petitioner. Petitioner’s Book remains significantly relevant because several state licensing exams have questions based on what’s in the book. Petitioner has not licensed either the 1990 or 2012 B | At all times since publication of the 2012 edition of Fences and Retaining Walls, Petitioner has offered MOBI, PDF and ePub editions of Fences and Retaining Walls for sale on Petitioner's Web site. The current price of this 413-page digital edition is $23. Because questions on state contractor licensing exams are based on this publication, the work remains in demand. Petitioner has not licensed the 2012 edition of this work to resellers such as Amazon or Respondent, making Petitioner the sole source for students studying for state licensure as a specialty contractor. Copyright law gives Petitioner this right. By infringing on Petitioner's exclusive right, Petitioner has lost sales revenue and profits. The amount of lost sales and revenue can be determined only after an accounting by Respondent of the number of copies printed and sold. The infringing work is being sold by Respondent as a book published by Petitioner but over which Petitioner has no authority or control. Any errors, omissions or inconsistencies induced by Respondent in the infringing work have the potential to damage Petitioner's reputation as a technical book publisher. Each sale of the infringing work by Respondent | Certified | Craftsman Book Company of America, Inc. | Dickinson Wright PLLC | Robert W Estell, Jr | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0273 | infringement | A portrait photograph of special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, ahead of their "In Conversation" event inside Cineworld cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 25 June 2008. | This claim for copyright infringement is made against an individual, Mr Adam Howard, being a resident of the state of Florida. Mr. Howard engages in various professional activities, which include the sale of artworks as framed prints, poster prints, and coffee mugs, and the undertaking of bespoke commissions. The foregoing aside, Mr. Howard's primary creative endeavors appear to be in roles as a visual effects artist/supervisor in the motion picture industry, where they have worked on more than one hundred and seventy projects, as evidenced by their resume which may be viewed at the following URL. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003952 It is my opinion that the respondent should thus be significantly aware of the scope and nature of copyright in general since they have been variously employed for several decades in an industry where copyright may be deemed the “lifeblood” of the same. The infringement relates to an original photographic work that was created by me on 25 June 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was provided under contract to my former agent, WireImage (a subsidiary of Getty Images), on that same date. Almost five years later, on 7 May 2013, the photograph | The harm suffered is my loss of ordinary licensing revenues for the derivative use of my work as part of the respondent's publication of the derivative in connection with their business activities, which would otherwise have required both advance consent and payment. As has been evidenced in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith (598 U.S. ___, 2023), “A photographer may also license [their] creative work to serve as a reference for an artist… licenses, for photographs or derivatives of them, are how photographers like Goldsmith make a living.” As such, the respondent's unlicensed use of my original work represents a breach of my rights under 17 U.S.C. § 106, being that the respondent first copied my work, then directly used that copy to prepare a derivative of my work, and subsequently communicated the derivative to the public by way of publication to websites and social media accounts under their control, as part of commercial activities that included the solicitation of sales of the respondent’s works, as well as bespoke commissions. By ignoring the copyright management information displayed alongside my photograph as published by the New York Times | Closed | Martin McNeil | none | Adam Howard | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0272 | infringement | Construction drawing | 1. I own a valid copyright in the work. (Registration number Vau-1-349-988) 2. The respondent uses my exclusives rights in the work without permission. 3. The close associate sends the drawing directly to the respondent. 4. The respondent’s work is substantially similar to the original elements of my work. The attached drawing 001 is my valid copyright work. The attached drawing 002 to 005 are infringement drawing from the respondent. Total five sets of infringement drawings. Each set of drawing mark in the red text show the pages number are similar to the original work | 1. Actual damages and respondent's profits from the infringement. 2. Statutory damages within a set range. 3. Respondent removes infringement work from the public agency | Closed | CHD Design Groups inc | none | Xuan Zheng | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0271 | infringement | Sound Recording by Recording Artist Thrigz including all musical and recorded elements. | The use of the original Beat in our sound recording was used to create a copy of the original work. This work was not authorized by the owners. | Not only did the original track was taken down prior to the infringement. The original work has suffered loss of income by this infringing activity. We are seeking the removal of the infringing track, plus accounting on all monies received by the track and compensation for the lost revenue on the original track. | Certified | Thigz LLC | Colon Izquierdo Law LLC | SECRET HIT LLC | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0270 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | Dare Nguyen | none | Barber Backpack | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0269 | -DMCA-noninfringement | NA | NA | This listing deactivation has caused my inventory to get stranded resulting in a short time notice to pull back which will in turn cost me thousands of dollars worth. It has cost me to de-rank from my amazon placement causing my listing to lose place in their top performer searches. Moreover, it cost me money everyday I am not live and selling | Closed | Before30 | none | Glamativity | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0268 | infringement | YouTube video | My footage of a Cessna 441 Conquest II performing an extremely hard landing was uploaded to YouTube on July 17, 2023 and got a lot of attention quickly. It was then found and reuploaded my many other channels without permission. The YouTube user 74Gear could have found my video during this period. The portion of my video that he uploaded includes whole important part of the video, the extreme hard landing, which is what everyone is there to watch. It is a direct copy of my video with some commentary. 74Gear is using the video he created for commercial purposes (with affiliate links, AdSense ads), not for nonprofit educational purpose. The recreated video utilized the only interesting and most substantial portions of my original video, showing the whole extreme hard landing, the whole purpose of my video. This will have a substantial effect on the future market of my video, as future viewers will not watch my original video once they have viewed the most important part of the video on another channel first. I filled in a copyright form through YouTube to have the content removed. YouTube reviewed the content and removed it. The user, 74Gear, filled in a counter notification. | A loss in video views and future views, and I create my content for commercial purposes, relying on the advertising revenue. Also a cost of $65.00 US to file a copyright for the video. A loss of time filling out a copyright removal form through YouTube, filling out the copyright application, and filling out the CCB application. For relief, I would like the user to not be able to reupload the video which had been removed. Also to cover any fees I have suffered from having to officially copyright the video and to submit this CCB claim. And a portion of the users earnings from the video uploaded which contained my content (based on the percentage my content made up their video). | Closed | Jesse Adams | none | Kelsey Hughes | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0267 | infringement | It's a dramatic short film that I wrote, produced, and starred in that is inspired from a traumatic experience with my mother. | I paid Awry Productions, Sam Pittman and Spencer Dorian Crane, to film and edit my script. The script was based on a traumatic experience I had with my mother. It is very personal to me. They were paid $900, distributed between them. He uploaded it onto YouTube to be viewed publicly in July 2023. It was already uploaded onto my YouTube Channel in May 2023. He had the footage as I had paid him to film it. | This short film is based on a traumatic experience I had with my mother. He makes profit based on a script I paid him to film. I say this because others will see the work and pay him to film for them. He has no other work to show except films I wrote and paid him to film. I'd rather he not use my experience for profit. It is my story. | Closed | Alicia McClendon | none | Awry Productions | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0266 | infringement | Standing Black Shirt with dark background | The channel owners are using my photos unmodified as thumb nails, video clips and video backgrounds. The uploaders have collectively done this about 80 times so far. Usually they say disparaging things about me while the videos play. | My Own Channel has suffered greatly. I have lost in almost all You Tube metrics such as impressions, views, engagement, less panelists, subscriber growth has literally stopped, etc. This has cause a delay in my ability to earn revenue from you tube. Instead of coming to me for information about me subscribers will just go to the respondence channels instead. The relief I'm seeking would be cease and desist from the use of any of my images, photos or videos (i.e. content). I want them to remove any existing content that has my photos in them and do not share these images with anyone else. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | James H Dillard | none | Damon Lovell | Order Granting Request to Link Kenneth Rucker with the Kenneth Rucker party |
| 23-CCB-0265 | -DMCA | NA | NA | My listing was taken down and I lost the opportunity to make a potential sale. My Ebay account is my main source of income. I am asking for $4,000 for being a frivolous claim and for all the time this has taken away from my work since 12/05/2022. I am the victim of Karen Johnston's (Michelle Shocked) abuse of the DMCA. She sends thousands of takedown notices from the comfort of her home at no cost to her. My item is not counterfeit and she knows it. She has cast a wide net of takedown notices in hopes of catching a potential counterfeiter. She is not acting with good faith or in the spirit of the DMCA. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | James Billington | none | Karen Johnston | #33 Michelle Shocked - Wikipedia.pdf |
| 23-CCB-0264 | infringement | Photograph of two champagne bottles | Respondent used subject images in online advertising without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. The images that the respondents used are identical to the images produced by the photographer. Specifically: - IMG_3078, IMG_3079, Screenshot 1, Screenshot 7, and Screenshot 12 (attached below from Respondent''s business social media accounts and website) use registered image 1C8A1247 without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. - IMG_3082, IMG_3084, IMG_3086, IMG_3092, IMG_3095, IMG_3097, Screenshot 2, Screenshot 5, Screenshot 8, and Screenshot 11 (attached below from Respondent''s business social media accounts and website) use registered images 1C8A1260 and 1C8A1363 without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. - IMG_3083, IMG_3085, IMG_3091, IMG_3094, IMG_3096, Screenshot 3, and Screenshot 4 (attached below from Respondent''s business social media accounts and website) use registered images 1C8A1250 and 1C8A1368 without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. - IMG_3087, IMG_3090, IMG_3093, Screenshot 6, Screenshot 9, and Screenshot 10 (attached below from Respondent''s business social media | Statutory damages in the maximum permissible by law Respondent's profits attributable to the infringements Claimant's costs and attorney fees | Closed | Alan D DeHerrera | Law Office of Eric Ridley | G.K. Skaggs Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0263 | infringement-DMCA | Video on YouTube | User stole my video of my YouTube and reuploaded to his channel for financial gain | Loss of income | Closed | Paul Green | none | Jonathan Wilkins | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0262 | -DMCA | NA | NA | My client Bosley has been threatened by Bobby Razak to take down content from my client through youtube and maliciously is trying to use the copyright certificate as legitimate document to entirely shut down my client, Bosely. Consequently, it hurts their marketing and sales for their product and ultimately have put my production company in harm as client relationship, which has negatively affected my business. | Closed | LAMPPOST PICTURES LLC | none | Bobby Razak | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0261 | infringement | Deadpool 3 Filming UK | The youtuber has created a video, uploaded and monetised it with out obtaining a licence, no attribution was made meaning their defence of "fair use" is invalid. | The Stills and Video of the deadpool 3 filming was exclusive and therefore valuable - also other youtubers that have done the same have paid a licence / infringement fee that is provable in court. | Closed | Terry Harris Photography | none | New Rockstars | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0260 | infringement | an essay containing information about the company operating under the brand "Bolgaria.me" | On September 14, 2019, I, as an author, in my own interests (not in the interests of third parties, but exclusively in my own interests) created the content myself, namely a work containing: a) general information about the company operating under the Bolgaria.me brand, b) potential customer reviews of the company, both positive and negative. I, as the owner of the relevant content, have the source file containing the material that was the subject of this request. The source file data (contained in the document properties) confirms the creation date of the document content - 09/14/2019. Thus, the relevant content was created by me before it was posted by the offending site. In July 2023, I established the fact of the misuse of the above material (content theft) by komentish.com. Thus, the following link contains unauthorized and infringing copies ("Infringing Materials") of copyrighted materials that infringe the exclusive rights of the Owner: https://komentish.com/kompanii/zagranitsa/bolgaria.me.html https://komentish.com/kompanii/zagranitsa/bolgaria.me.html?list_page=2 | to recognize the fact of violation of my copyright and collect from the violator a fine in the amount of 10 000.00 US dollars | Closed | Fedor Riabov | none | Komentish.com | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0259 | infringement | Series of portraits | Ian Gittler ("Mr. Gittler") is a freelance photographer. In 2019, Mr. Gittler was contacted by Mun Rabot (“Agency”) to work on a commercial for NYU Dentistry School (“NYU”) and its Brooklyn expansion project. Agency informed Client that he would be working under the production company, Heads You Go West (“ProdCo”), which was owned and operated by the Agency. Before being formally engaged for the commercial, Mr. Gittler directed, shot, and edited photos for a still photo campaign with NYU. The terms of the still campaign were brokered by the producer at ProdCo, Sandra Miller (“Producer”). According to the original terms, Mr. Gittler would direct, shoot, and edit photos of eight subjects and license the photos to NYU for two years to be displayed in bus shelters, subway entrances, and digital sidewalk displays in Brooklyn. NYU was licensed to use the photographs from February 2020 until February 2022, and Client was paid his full $63,020 fee. Shortly thereafter, the COVID-19 pandemic occurred. NYU halted the expansion of its dentistry program to Brooklyn and began to take liberties with Mr. Gittler's photos that were not agreed upon in the original deal, such as expansion of the c | Mr. Gittler's work has been used without his permission and he therefore is seeking that NYU either (1) pay $15,000 for another two years license, retroactive to the date of expiration of the first agreement; or (2) buy out the rights to Mr. Gittler's photos for $25,000. | Certified | Ian M Gittler | Segal McCambridge Singer and Mahoney | NYU College of Dentistry | Scheduling Order |
| 23-CCB-0258 | infringement-DMCA | Photos of sterling silver ring. Spinner, with three thin band spin over the main wide band. Design number: ASPR043 | The work that were infriged are photographs our company produced on many shooting days and edit hours. With models and in studio. These are our designs photographs. One of the company owners is even the model. We have registered copyright for all these photos at the US Copyrights Office. The respondent may find the photos online, on Google, on the company website, or on our Etsy shop. They probably downloaded it and used it as their own. They just copied our photo and shamelessly used it on their Etsy shop. They use our photos which have the copyright registered. They use an exact copy of our photos which you will be able to see clearly. They did so without any permission. I sent them a few messages on Etsy messages convo. I let them know they violate our copyright and use our work without permission. They did not comply, and simply replied, "Ok". | This kind of use harms us by making us lose sales immediately. When people search online, they think they buy at our respected original shop but buy at the fake one. They get low quality and think it is us. It reduces our brand recognition and reputation. In addition, when one copies our work, it encourages others to reproduce our work as well. It creates an escalation. We suffer from this a lot. We invest vast amounts of time and money producing our great professional photographs for ourselves, and they just use them without permission. Each one of this item revenue is more than $1000 per month. Two of them have revenue of more than $6000 each, per month. We experience a huge loss in sales since the respondent started copying our work. I seek to declare that the infringer will never use our work again. I am looking for compensation for the loose of sales, reputation, time, and money spent on this frustrating issue, in the worth of $5000 per each work. | Closed | Boho Magic LLC | none | Rajesh Vishvakarma | DownloadOrder Finding Bad Faith and Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0257 | infringement | Winning Isn’t Normal was copyrighted in 2017 (Exhibit-1) as an abridgment of my copyrighted 1982 book. The deposit included with Registration No. TX0008503571 is a poster. The Poster contains text that is near-identical to that which appears on page 8 of the book Winning Isn’t Normal, which was separately copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 Registration No. TX2672644. (Exhibit-2) The text in question is my original, creative expression of my philosophy of what I believe is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. The poster also contains my Copyright Management Information (CMI) that appeared below the abridgement and additionally on posters, t-shirts and other WIN products offered for sale. | Respondent has sophisticated knowledge and use of intellectual copyright law. On August 4, 2020 claimant discovered that respondent posted claimant’s copyrighted works on Facebook on July 6, 2019 without obtaining permission from claimant. (Exhibit-3) This infringing content was instantaneously distributed to more than 2,100 of respondent’s followers as well as displayed to billions who have access to the Internet. This post by respondent may very well lead readers to believe respondent was the author of claimant’s copyrighted works. Adding to the confusion, respondent noted in this same posting, “thanks Raymond L. Broughton” which may lead readers to believe Raymond Broughton was the author. (Exhibit-3). On August 4, 2020 claimant demanded that respondent cease all unauthorized uses; remove all uses; and pay claimant for the damages done (Exhibit-4). Claimant also gave notice to respondent that claimant believed respondent had violated the DMCA by disseminating respondent’s copyrighted text without including any of claimant’s CMI. Respondent replied: “. . . take it up with Facebook” and “I have forwarded this to my attorney . . .” (Exhibit-5) On that same day respondent se | Respondent has at least 11,600 followers and friends. Had respondent purchased posters or books at $40 plus S&H per unit [the only permitted way to use claimant’s copyrighted works] for everyone to which respondent distributed the work; respondent’s costs would have been substantially more than $464,000 in costs saved by respondent. Furthermore, respondent’s infringements encouraged others to share claimant’s works with their followers, thereby exacerbating damages and causing a cascade of unauthorized copying, disseminating, and public display of my copyrighted works to induce, facilitate, or encourage further downstream infringement. As of this writing, respondent’s infringements of claimant’s works continue to be found on the Internet as well as to be displayed on respondent’s Internet posts and to the billions who have access to the Internet. Respondent uses his infringements to promote his reputation as an author and motivational speaker. Claimant seeks: (1) a judgment of respondent’s July 6, 2019 commercial infringement on Facebook; (2) a judgment of respondent’s January 12, 2020 commercial infringement on Twitter; (3) a judgment of respondent’s January 12, 2020 | Closed | Keith F. Bell | none | Larry A. McKenzie | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0256 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | Lions Financial | none | Higbee & Associates | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0255 | infringement | Winning Isn’t Normal was copyrighted in 2017 as an abridgement of my copyrighted 1982 book. The deposit included with Registration No. TX0008503571 is a poster. The Poster contains text that is near-identical to that which appears on page 8 of the book Winning Isn’t Normal, which was separately copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 Registration No. TX2672644. The text in question is my original, creative expression of my philosophy of what I believe is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. The poster also contains my Copyright Management Information (CMI) that appeared below the abridgement and additionally on posters, t-shirts and other WIN products offered for sale. | On 9/20/2020 I discovered that respondent posted one of my copyrighted works on his Twitter account on May 16, 2016 without obtaining permission from me. This infringing content was instantaneously distributed to respondent's 29,700 Twitter followers and at least 18 retweeted respondent's infringing, commercial post. Moreover, said post was made available to billions who have access to the Internet. Furthermore, the post encouraged other individuals to share my work with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized dissemination of my copyrighted work. I also believe that the post violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by infringing upon the Copyright Management Information. | The only permitted way anyone can use my copyrighted works is to purchase books, posters, or t-shirts at full retail price ($32.95) plus shipping and handling ($8.95) per unit. Instead, respondent distributed my copyrighted work to at least 29,700 followers and to at least 18 retweeters without paying for them. Had respondent paid the fees due for said distributions, it would have cost respondent considerably more than $1,000,000 to do so. The $1 million does not include the damages done by displaying my work to billions, the permission improperly given to Twitter for others to use, or the DMCA violations. Moreover respondent encouraged others to post my copyrighted works causing a cascade of additional infringing acts. Claimant seeks: an admission of infringement of my copyrighted work and payment of $30,000 to claimant. | Certified | Keith F Bell | none | Michael M Jones | Order Granting Request to Link Darren A Heitner with the Michael M Jones party |
| 23-CCB-0254 | infringement | The work is a song with words, melody and music | The respondent (No Mercy LLC / Marty Cintron) Heard me (Peter Betan) perform my work of the song (The World inside Your Eyes) live around 2004-2005 Afterwards the same evening, Marty Cintron introduced himself and expressed interest in recording my work with him singing my work for his album. He invited me to his Studio and I (the writer of the work) recorded a live guitar track of the work per his request. After time, I followed up to get a status and progress of the recording project and my numerous phone calls and queries remained unanswered. I came to the assumption that the recording project was abandoned, never took flight and I stopped following up. In mid 2022 (19 years later) I was surfing youtube, and there it was. My work "The World Inside Your Eyes" by No Mercy - I listened. The song is unmistakably a complete copy of my work, music, melody and lyrics, with imitated production ideas as well. Marty Cintron is the lead singer and the arrangement of the song was about a minute shorter. And to my surprise, he even placed the guitar track I recorded in his studio 19 years prior. I, Peter Betan the writer of the work, recorded, produced, sang and independently released | The harm suffered is that myself as the writer of the work was never acknowledged as the writer of the work. No permission was ever discussed or asked. It was done illegally and unprofessionally. And lastly, I was never compensated monetarily for any sales, royalties and distribution of my work. | Certified | Peter Betancourt | none | No Mercy Music LLC / Marty Cintron CEO | Notice of Compliance and Direction to Serve |
| 23-CCB-0253 | infringement | Winning Isn’t Normal was copyrighted in 2017 as an abridgement of my copyrighted 1982 book. The deposit included with Registration No. TX0008503571 is a poster. The Poster contains text which is near-identical to that which appears on page 8 of the book Winning Isn’t Normal, which was separately copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 Registration No. TX2672644. The text in question is my original, creative expression of my philosophy of what I believe is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. The poster also contains my Copyright Management Information (CMI) that appeared below the abridgement and additionally on posters, t-shirts and other WIN products offered for sale. | Solon and I settled a previous infringement claim in 2018 on "Winning Isn't Normal." The current infringement is not only another willful infringement, but is a breach of our settlement agreement and comes following numerous warnings from me and from other sources not to use my work without my permission. On November 1, 2021 I discovered that Lucas Stanton posted one of my copyrighted work, Winning Isn't Normal" on his Twitter account without obtaining the permission or the necessary licenses from me. This infringing content was instantaneously distributed to his 1,666 followers and to billions who have access to the Internet. Furthermore, the post encouraged other individuals to share my work with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized dissemination of my copyrighted work. I also believe that in spite of my warnings the post had violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by infringing upon the Copyright Management Information. | Had the Respondents purchased a poster or book for everyone that received my work as a result of the distribution, the cost would be well over $66,000, not counting the display to billions, the permission improperly given to Twitter for others to use, or the DMCA violations. I may seek Statutory Damages. On 11/30/21, Superintendent Eidahl called me. From the second I answered the phone, Mr. Eidahl yelled at me: verbally abused me; called me names; attacked my integrity, my honesty and my humanity; and much more. He then followed with an email that continued and expanded upon those themes. At this time, I am seeking (1) respondents' concession of copyright infringement (2) respondents' agreement to not violate the claimant's copyrighted materials in the future and to immediately remove all infringing material from its websites, social media platforms and all other unauthorized uses (3) an apology from Solon and Mr. Eidahl to claimant for all verbal abuse (4) an order forbidding respondents from defaming claimant; and (5) $30,000 in damages payable to the claimant. Please see attached documents. | Closed | Keith F. Bell | none | Solon Community School District Board of Education | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0252 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Falsely accused of selling counterfeit products on PayPal who does not allow up to file a counter claim. Our product listing was removed from the platform, Damage to our seller account. We a seeking relief in the form of a penalty paid by Respondent in the maximum amount allowed by the courts, | Closed | Wendy Papula | none | BrandShield | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0251 | infringement | interview, not for sale and or redistribution without a license | The copyrighted work was taken without permission, reproduced and distributed publicly for profit as part of an online smear campaign with no actual proof. The work was also used for purposes of slander with false statements from third parties known to be malicious in their efforts. | Substantial monetary harm was caused due to the negligence and misrepresentation of said work. i.e. loss of business relationship(s), internet clean-up and potential loss earnings. | Closed | Troi Torain | none | Amos Vershima Ajo | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0250 | infringement | Winning Isn’t Normal was copyrighted in 2017 as an abridgement of my copyrighted 1982 book. The deposit included with Registration No. TX0008503571 is a poster. The Poster contains text which is near-identical to that which appears on page 8 of the book Winning Isn’t Normal, which was separately copyrighted in 1982 and registered in 1989 Registration No. TX2672644. The text in question is my original, creative expression of my philosophy of what I believe is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and all other endeavors in which success is desirable. It is not factual. The poster also contains my Copyright Management Information (CMI) that appeared below the abridgement and additionally on posters, t-shirts and other WIN products offered for sale. | On August 31, 2021 I discovered that Perfect Crust Pizza Liners posted one of my copyrighted works on their Facebook account on November 22, 2020 without obtaining the permission or the necessary licenses from me. This infringing content was instantaneously distributed to Perfect Crust's 1,709 followers and to billions who have access to the Internet. Furthermore, the post encouraged other individuals to share my work with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized dissemination of my copyrighted work. It is also believed that the post may have violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by infringing upon the Copyright Management Information. | Had Perfect Crust Pizza purchased a poster or book for everyone that received my work as a result of the distribution, the cost would be well over $68,000, not counting the display to billions, the permission improperly given to Facebook for others to use, or the DMCA violations. I may seek Statutory Damages. At this time, I am seeking $30,000 in damages for these infringing acts. | Certified | Keith F Bell | none | Perfect Crust Pizza Liners | proof-service_0250 |
| 23-CCB-0249 | infringement | Caity Simmers Water Photo At The Box | Published to their website in a paid advertised article this photo. I do not know how they found my work. | Stolen use of my work undermining my ability to get paid for my work. I am seeking $4000. | Closed | Ryan Miller | none | Monster Children | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0248 | -DMCA | NA | NA | This is the second time this respondent has made this claim. 3 month ago he made the exact same claim which he retracted a month later. Now he has gone and did it again. That is why for this claim I am asking for the full $30,000 limit that the CCB can provide. He has cost me far more than this in revenue as my listing has been removed. After my listing is reinstated it will also cost me more in advertising money to rank my product organically again. At this point this respondent is harrassing me and my business. | Closed | The American Bv | none | The Good Ones, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0247 | infringement | Book, text | Respondent is a self-proclaimed "publisher." Respondent entered into a publishing agreement with Claimant on January 26, 2021 (see Exhibit 1, attached) with the intent that Respondent would publish Claimant's book "Land of the Storytellers." The publishing agreement gave Respondent a limited right to publish Claimant's book in all formats during the term of the agreement. The publishing agreement was terminated as of November 18, 2021 (see Exhibit 2, attached). As a result, Respondent lost the right to distribute Claimant's book after November 18, 2021. Despite losing the right to distribute Claimant's book, Respondent continued to distribute Claimant's book after November 18, 2021 in violation of Claimant's rights (see Exhibit 3, attached). | Monetary damages resulting from Respondent's willful violation of Claimant's rights. Claimant seeks up to $5,000 in statutory damages. | Closed | Stephen Deck | Keough Law PLLC | Definance Press & Publishing, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0246 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Claimant has lost sales due to Respondent's actions. If Respondent's misrepresentations in his counter-notice cause Etsy to restore his listing using Claimaint's photographs (Copyright Application 1-12783444651), Claimant will continue to lose sales and potentially suffer harm to her seller account reputation on Etsy. Claimant seeks money damages for lost sales as a result of Respondent's actions and to have Claimant's photos permantly removed from Respondent's listing on Etsy. | Certified | Jennifer Lamendola | Driscoll & Seltzer, PLLC | Zohaib Temuri | First Default Notice |
| 23-CCB-0245 | infringement | Photograph of three environmental protestors holding up a sign at a protest against the bayou bridge pipeline project | Respondent is the owner of the law firm and website Marcy Allen Law (www.marcyallen.com). On March 2, 2022, Claimant discovered that beginning on or about May 23, 2019, Respondent reproduced, distributed, and displayed Claimant’s copyrighted photograph of three environmental protestors protesting against the Louisiana Bayous Bridge Pipeline project. Claimant’s photograph is not only used without her knowledge or permission, Respondent fails to provide Claimant’s authorship credit for her photograph 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, and despite the fact that Respondent knew or should have known that it does not own the photograph. Claimant believes Respondent knowingly failed to include credit to Claimant in order to conceal its own infringement and/or to induce, facilitate, or encourage further downstream infringement. Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph, with or without her name. | $15,000 – Statutory Damages - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits | Certified | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Marcy Allen Law | Scheduling Order |
| 23-CCB-0244 | infringement | Four New Orleans police officers, mounted on horses, on a street in New Orleans. | Respondents are the owners of the law firm and website Morris Bart (www.morrisbart.com). On October 2, 2020, Claimant discovered that beginning on or about February 14, 2019, Respondents reproduced, distributed, and displayed Claimant’s copyrighted photograph of four New Orleans police officers, mounted on horseback. Claimant’s photograph is not only used without her knowledge or permission, Respondents failed to provide Claimant’s authorship credit for her photograph 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, and despite the fact that Respondents knew or should have known that it does not own the photograph. Claimant believes Respondents knowingly failed to include credit to Claimant in order to conceal their own infringement and/or to induce, facilitate, or encourage further downstream infringement. Claimant never authorized Respondents to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph, with or without her name. | $15,000 – Statutory Damages - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits | Certified | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Morris Bart, L.L.C. | Scheduling Order |
| 23-CCB-0243 | infringement | Science literature. A theory of evolution. | I wrote an article in hope that NATURE MAGAZINE would publish it. It's a 2,000 word theory of Nature's process of evolution. My theory shows scientific CAUSE & EFFECT. Cause & effect is the cornerstone of any science. My theory explains that Nature uses a three part process: Threat, FEAR, and Fortification. FEAR is the core idea of my evolutionary process. FEAR is the internal mechanism of evolution. Fear is what gives evolution acceleration or a deceleration in evolutionary speed within time. if one ever woke in a gasp, feeling fear, this is the point where life began. Before my article, world wide biologist relied on random mutations by natural selection. Mutations provide no scientific process, it being a wait and see result. WGBH produces NOVA on PBS as episodic television relying on audience size for its success. WGBH produces NOVA as a form of entertainment and is not a scientific laboratory. WGBH never sought my permission to use my work. There are many direct quotes in WGBH's NOVA episodes from my theory. I employed some rhetoric in my written theory. Before I discovered the process of evolution biology science had no real, tangible, and verifiable CAUSE & EFFECT like othe | I'm suffering countless infringements that are piling up at me feet because of what WGBH has done to me. A simple acknowledgement would have prevented mass infringement, it would have brought me enough support and notoriety that it could have made my disabled life better. Being in poverty and suffering from strokes WGBH could have stood upon their principles and helped me. WGBH 's intention was to make me completely invisible, to disconnect me from my work. I am seeking $30,000.00 US. | Closed | Raymond Hughes | none | WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0242 | infringement | Northern Lights picture | I am writing to inform you copyright infringements by Ravi Telugu Traveller youtube channel for using our copyrighted content without our consent. The infringing content includes a significant portion of our original work. We would like to point out that the content that was copied does not fall under any exceptions to copyright infringement. I hereby declare that the information provided is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. | The misuse of our content serves a different purpose than our original work and is being utilized in a way that was never intended. this use does not fall under any exceptions to copyright protection. We have not authorized the use of this content on the infringing channel, and we have reason to believe that the channel owner intentionally misused our content . Additionally, the channel owner has monetised his content and used our content for commerical purpose | Closed | PARANYU PITHAYARUNGSARIT | none | Ravi Gudla | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0241 | infringement | Photograph of a prominent youth activist on the shoulders of an older woman attending a "March For Science" held in Washington D.C. in 2007. | Respondent is the owner of the website AffinityMagazine.us. On November 13, 2020, Claimant discovered that beginning on or about June 4, 2018, Respondent reproduced, distributed, and displayed Claimant’s copyrighted photograph of a prominent youth activist on the shoulders of an older woman attending a “March For Science” in Washington D.C. in 2007 in connection with Respondent’s publication on its website, and possibly elsewhere. Claimant’s photograph is not only used without her knowledge or permission, Respondent fails to provide Claimant’s authorship credit for her photograph 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, and despite the fact that Respondent knew or should have known that it does not own the photograph. Claimant believes Respondent knowingly failed to include credit to Claimant in order to conceal its own infringement and/or to induce, facilitate, or encourage further downstream infringement. Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph, with o | $15,000 - Statutory damages - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits | Certified | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Affinity Magazine, L.L.C. | Order Granting Request to Link Rose Woolson with the Affinity Magazine, L.L.C. party |
| 23-CCB-0240 | infringement | Liberal Tears Starbucks Parody. | Unauthorized use of our registered copyrighted 2D artwork on clothing for sale. | Loss of sales due to lower priced competition, confusion in the marketplace. Seeing monetary relief in the form of a fine and court fees due to the infringing member refusing to remove copyrighted art and filing a fraudulent counter notice with Etsy. | Certified | Wendy Papula | none | Celil Akgobek | Order to Pay Second Filing Fee |
| 23-CCB-0239 | infringement | Photographs | To the best of my knowledge respondents Kamaria (Nelson) Johnson and Stacy Haynes-Nelson distributed copyrighted photographs to The Tennessee Tribune. This distribution took place through an online gallery bearing the business name "Elle Danielle" and including the same in the gallery URL. Both Johnson and Haynes-Nelson were fully aware of the copyrights held by the photographer, as indicated in the signed wedding contract. After Johnson and Haynes-Nelson's distribution, an agent representing The Tennessee Tribune intentionally downloaded the entire gallery of images. Subsequently, these images were unlawfully reproduced, distributed, and publicly displayed across four full pages of the publication, reaching a wide readership across the state of Tennessee. | The harm suffered by the claimant includes lost licensing fees for 52 images as well the Infringer's profits in distributing the works to more than 150,000 readers across the state of Tennessee. | Closed | LaTara Sturgis | none | The Tennessee Tribune | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0238 | infringement | Joe Biden Prank Postcard | Beginning in May of 2023 the respondent began selling our copyrighted postcard designs on Etsy. We designed these postcards in-house. We designed the Joe Biden postcard in November of 2022 and began selling this postcard online the same month. We designed the Donald Trump postcard in April of 2023 and began selling the postcard online the same month. We offer these postcard designs for sale on Etsy. The respondent copied our postcard designs and began selling them on Etsy in May of 2023. The respondent's postcards are nearly identical to ours and a reasonable consumer would not distinguish the minor differences between our designs and the respondent's designs. The respondent has copied the layout of our designs, the color scheme of our designs, and the text of our designs. | The extent of the harm suffered as a result of the respondent infringing on our copyrighted designs is not known at this time, as we do not have access to the respondent's bookkeeping and sales records. We are therefore seeking the maximum statutory damages allowed by law in the amount of $7,500 per infringement, for a total of $15,000 for this claim. We would also like for the respondent to cease infringing on our copyrighted postcard designs. | Closed | W3X Media LLC | none | Sean Martinet | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0237 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | hip hop & r&b | they got paid off my music and did taxes using my business and cant filling charges on me because they steal from me | they made a lot of money off my music | Closed | Rags Too Riches Records | none | Vernon Craig | Order Closing Case |
| 23-CCB-0236 | infringement | Youtube video about derma rolling | I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by me, the copyright owner. Original Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpYV2fyPtdk&t=1s Original Thumbnail: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DpYV2fyPtdk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCPYBEIoBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLC9yi3Q49vXGrhfzuXiezuzKrzzVg CopyCat Thumbnail: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_BZKanIsQRA/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCOgCEMoBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLBB4jMnD8cw8he781xuDhW2sMtBAA CopyCat Video: https://youtu.be/_BZKanIsQRA CopyCat Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/LBCFdYoiS7U 1) It uses too much of the original video. It uses all of my video except the outro. The copycat video uses my original video in the following timestamps of their copycat video: 00:02 to 00:13 00:25 to 00:32 01:10 to 01:14 01:23 to 01:26 02:03 to 02:23 02:29 to 02:43 02:48 to 03:01 03:04 to 03:10 03:14 to 03:17 03:47 to 03:58 04:06 to 04:39 04:58 to 05:14 05:17 to 05:45 05:56 to 06:02 06:23 to 06:38 06:44 to 06:51 06:56 to 07:12 07:19 to 07:34 07:41 to 07:55 07:57 to 08:06 2) My video is being used to push commercial product. 3) Infringin | 24 hours after the copycat video was created using my thumbnail, the views on my video tanked. When searching for my video, the infringing video pops up directly above mine. The theft of my thumbnail is the most harmful as it causes viewer confusion over the original and legitimate source. | Closed | John T Harper, Jr | none | Gary Linkov | Order to Dismiss Claim |
| 23-CCB-0235 | infringement | An instrumental hip hop influenced track | The song "My Way" has multiple elements resembling my song "Blissful Endings". In music, there are many cases where similar sounds happen inconsequentially from one another. However, in this case, Blissful Endings has multiple elements that are coincidental with the track My Way. The drums, piano melody, main melody(vocals) and bass line are all strikingly similar. The end of My Way features a piano being played on its own, which sounds nearly identical to Blissful Endings. | I have been mentally disturbed by the inability to fight this infringement. ECCB has given me hope that I can proceed and have the claim heard in court. My music passions and careers have been in a mental state of helplessness, and I am seeking some type of monetary re-course for my work being used. I do not have any specific dollar amount or royalty percentage that I am looking for, but that is the relief that I would like. My name listed in some form of credit is a secondary goal of mine. I feel that work should be compensated, and work being used without any recognition or compensation is a serious infringement which leads to situations like mine. | Closed | Iosif G Mermelshtayn | none | 300 Entertainment(Warner Music Group) | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0234 | infringement | Rules and guidelines written for a roleplay community, these rules serve as the basic guidelines for play and any sort of interaction in this community. | I was a partner with Melissa (legal name Louis) on a project named NBRP (New Beginnings Roleplay) where we had signed a contract to divide profits based on work produced for the project. Following several months of working together, I discovered the Melissa had been misrepresenting our earnings, and holding any profits or funds we earned related to the project for herself. I opened a small claims case against Melissa in Canada, which I won and she was found liable for lost work and violation of the contract signed between us, and she has continued to use the work and refused to pay. | Due to the importance of rules in a roleplay-based gaming community, these rules and other guidelines produced by me for the project are valuable for the maintenance and livelihood of the server. Melissa earns thousands of dollars on this project and uses these rules as a guideline for hundreds of active players. Without these rules and the extended period of time they have been in place, the community would be unable to survive and profit as it has for years. | Closed | Noor Nahas | none | Louis Gualtieri, Jr | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0233 | infringement | Scene of speed boat sailing on the Intracoastal waterway in foreground with row of mid-rise condominium buildings in background along left side of frame on a sunny day with clouds. | Five color photographs are published and distributed in a marketing and promotional context for a residential community and destination in South Florida via the websites of Hillcrest Country Club No. 11 Condominium, Inc. Initially, the photographs were provided as part of a collection of other photographic work. Following a power grab by the Board of Directors for control of the website of the Homeowners Association, a cease and desist order dated December 18, 2015 was delivered to the Association's Registered Agent and Board President. That document itemized all of the content that I authored that must be removed from the Association's website(s). The Homeowners Association obliged. A few years later it was discovered that a batch of five photographs illustrating one article were allegedly restored to active use on the Homeowners Association's websites. The Respondent was provided documentation of this infringement in April 2023 along with a demand for monetary restitution. The Respondent has not replied to that recent correspondence. | For the deceitful act of continuing to exploit photographic work without consent after the Respondent received a cease and desist document. I am seeking relief in the form of a licensing fee payment for each photograph and statutory damages in the fullest amount permissible by U.S. copyright law. | Certified | SEAN DRAKES | none | Hillcrest Country Club No. 11 Condominium, Inc. | Order to Pay Second Filing Fee and For All Parties to Register for eCCB |
| 23-CCB-0232 | 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® 251: Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on July 11, 2020 (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 High Elevation Investments LLC, Literature & Libations LLC, Bryan N. Gay, Tonya J. Gay, and Nathan D. Jorgenson (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Mulligan’s Pub located at 1115 S. 3rd Street, Laramie, WY 82070 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Bryan N. Gay | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Certified | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | High Elevation Investments LLC | Second Notice to Register for eCCB |
| 23-CCB-0231 | infringement | Commercial | Bosley is posting work via their YouTube channel and other social media platforms that I have not authorized the release to them. I was the Director, so the creative content was performed by me and the intellectual property is mine. I also produced the content as my duties included: creating the content, organizing the shoot, negotiating, advising on locations and scheduling. In addition, I performed the post-editing. I have a copyright filing for this content and it is provided within the evidence. I was not a "work for hire" employee as there was no expressly written agreement between me any other company, Therefore, there was no agreement that the work would be considered "made for hire", nor did I sign anything from any company involved stating this. The Copyright Office issued Registration Number PAU4166196 for a commercial titled “Bosley ‘Let’s Go'"". The three works described in this claim are a copyright infringement as they are parts of the original copyright that the respondent is creating into several different commercials on YouTube. They have disbanded the original work and recut into similar works. All parts of the works introduced in this claim are part of the | Bosley continues to use the content that I have created, produced, directed and edited without monetary compensation. I have explicitly advised them not to use it and filed an official copyright filing and multiple YouTube disputes. | Closed | Bobby Razak | none | Bosley | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0230 | infringement-DMCA | Music | Discogs allowed its members to post and sell my prototype album "On Time & In Tune" which contained several copyrighted material 1. Lovin In the Livin Room 2. Monte Carlo Night 3.Thumbs Up 4 Love In The Air 5. Festave (alt) The Festival 6. Surrender The album was not completed and was with credit errors. There were only 20 copies manufacturered and were given out to band members and family. Discogs post wrote that it had 16 of 20 copies manufacturered and wanted 100 plus more to sell. The only way to have that many copies is to manufacturer the album and they did so without my knowledge, authorization or license. | Discogs released it to the public incomplete with error in the credits without songs that was added to the album and upon completion of the album created confusion to the public as to being a genuine release. | Closed | Larry Nash, Mr | none | Discogs | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0229 | infringement-DMCA | adult content taken from my onlyfans page | https://onlyfans.com/mizzbeethebodyxxx all of my videos were removed from this web page and posted to shemale6.com with my watermark on them for free which dramatically decreased my ability to make income from my own content | My income from my work was dramatically reduced more then half and it made it very difficult for me to make income off of my own work in addition I pay many of the people who co-star with me in my work so that was also a loss of income I would like them to take my content down and refrain from using it in the future | Closed | alexis i patterson | none | peter maina | DownloadFinding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0228 | infringement | Gang in this bitch by Gogetthatbag Yc ft ap lucci | they got paid off my music and been acting they work for me and signing people to my label | They been acting like they me been signing people to my label | Closed | Universal Publishing Company | none | Delwin Reece | Order Closing Case |
| 23-CCB-0227 | infringement | None given | Clayton Morris republished our video scripts in bulk without our permission to his Youtube channel which is called: Red Pilled Tv. Clayton Morris downloaded our content from our Youtube channel and re-uploaded to his channel as if it was his work. He monetized the stolen work and gained 2 million views and around 15,000 dollar revenue. This is Clayton Morris's youtube video with our video script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmU0wApHI4 | Clayton Morris re-uploaded our youtube video scripts with the same metadata, title, description, and keyword. That is why people watched his videos and not ours. He did it not once, but 15 times, which resulted in 2 million views and 15,000 dollar revenue to him with the stolen content. He used fake information in counter-notification so probably I won't get any revenue but the relief I'm seeking is that his channel be terminated. | Closed | Gergely Turi | none | Clayton Morris | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0226 | infringement | None given | Clayton Morris republished our video scripts in bulk without our permission to his Youtube channel which is called: Red Pilled Tv. Clayton Morris downloaded our content from our Youtube channel and re-uploaded to his channel as if it was his work. He monetized the stolen work and gained 2 million views and around 15,000 dollar revenue. This is Clayton Morris's youtube video with our video script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZSq_1WZC4 | Clayton Morris re-uploaded our youtube video scripts with the same metadata, title, description, and keyword. That is why people watched his videos and not ours. He did it not once, but 15 times, which resulted in 2 million views and 15,000 dollar revenue to him with the stolen content. He used fake information in counter-notification so probably I won't get any revenue but the relief I'm seeking is that his channel be terminated. | Closed | Gergely Turi | none | Clayton Morris | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0225 | infringement | None given | Clayton Morris republished our video scripts in bulk without our permission to his Youtube channel which is called: Red Pilled Tv. Clayton Morris downloaded our content from our Youtube channel and re-uploaded to his channel as if it was his work. He monetized the stolen work and gained 2 million views and around 15,000 dollar revenue. This is Clayton Morris's youtube video with our video script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFwCOBfv7fU | Clayton Morris re-uploaded our youtube video scripts with the same metadata, title, description, and keyword. That is why people watched his videos and not ours. He did it not once, but 15 times, which resulted in 2 million views and 15,000 dollar revenue to him with the stolen content. He used fake information in counter-notification so probably I won't get any revenue but the relief I'm seeking is that his channel be terminated. | Closed | Gergely Turi | none | Clayton Morris | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0224 | -DMCA-noninfringement | NA | NA | Financial loss. Whenever the respondent files a DMCA notice against me, I cannot sell my product on Etsy for 12-14 days. I have lost an estimated $648 in potential sales over 48 days. This rate was determined by an average of one sale per day at $13.50. The respondent is aware of this amount, as she has received and viewed an initial invoice sent to her via Paypal for $621 on April 6, 2023. I have since sent two updated invoices for a total of $1,491. She has not responded to any invoices. While some of my listings can be relisted per DMCA laws, Michelle has not withdrawn any of the 21 complaints against me, which results in reduced traffic to my shop, as my search ranking is affected. The respondent has used social media platforms in an attempt to falsely accuse me of theft of copyright, damaging my personal and business reputation. The respondent has also engaged in bullying, harassment, and stalking. She continues to make defamatory and libelous statements about me and my business on her social media pages. The loss in sales from this is not calculable. Due to the respondent's continued claims with Etsy I have had to spend numerous hours building my own website, as wel | Closed | Elyza Davis | none | Michelle Milano | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0223 | infringement-DMCA | logo of the company, as well as the company name | The aforementioned pages on the respondents website use a derivative of our protected logo (Case #: 1-12721607791 with the copyright board) as well as our company name without our permission. | Reputational damage to our company by publishing badly researched and entirely untrue information. The site is using our name to sell online memberships, we demand all the fees sold through these pages as well as an additional $2.500 in order to cover the legal costs. | Closed | finixio Ltd | none | Cryptoticker.io GmbH | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0222 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Regarding the claim we are pursuing, our company has obtained exclusive authorization from the author to publish our works on our platform. However, a significant number of our exclusive works have been unlawfully placed on a pirate website (https://forum.3ptechies.com) without our permission, and we have been unable to establish contact with the operators of this website. We have made consistent efforts to address this issue by filing complaints through Google search and submitting takedown notices to Google in accordance with the provisions of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) Section 512. Unfortunately, despite our efforts, the pirate website has falsely claimed to have the right to use our works, resulting in ongoing infringement. Many of our works have been registered with the United States Copyright Office, and their presence on this website unequivocally does not constitute fair use. This unauthorized use directly harms our platform, leading to reduced user retention, decreased click-through rates, diminished advertising revenue, as well as reduced revenue and quantity from paid or membership-based services. The damages inflicted upon our company are substantial | Closed | READ ASAP LTD | none | Simon Miracle | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0221 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption/docket | Not available | See caption/docket | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0220 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | TheForexReview | none | Cyber Intelligence Services LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0219 | infringement | Group of Published Photographs | 15 copyright photos were displayed on the opening page of CJT Builders' website as works from his project that was photographed, however, he never received or paid for photos from Jane Beiles Photography LLC, who is the photographer of these photos. The photo shoot was July 2, 2021, and sent to the designer, Elena Philips Interiors, July 6, 2021. The designer may have shared them with the client but says she never shared them with the builder. Jane Beiles Photography notified CJT Builders of the copyright infringement once aware May 8, 2023. We suggest he pay for the photos, which he chose just to take them down and not pay for them. | The photos were displayed for usage by the builder on the opening page to his website to sell his services as a builder. They are considerably higher quality photos than those others displayed on his site. He never paid for the license for these photos and used them without the author's knowledge on his site as a marketing material for an unknown amount of time. Jane Beiles Photography LLC is hired by builders, architects and designers to take photos of projects to help promote their businesses. It is the only source of income for JBP LLC, and CJT took advantage by using her images without paying for them. CJT Builders never paid for these services or the end product and was using them as a marketing and advertising tool without owning the license for the photos. Because they were on his site for an undisclosed amount of time, we are seeking payment and damages for the illegal usage of these 15 photos to prevent this from happening again. | Certified | Jane Beiles Photography LLC | none | CJT Builders | Opt-out for CJT Builders |
| 23-CCB-0218 | infringement | Normal Sinus Anatomy | Big Mouth Speech, Ann Kulichick have posted copyright images twice on her Facebook pages. "Normal Sinus Anatomy" is the one image posted twice on the Facebook account. | This is a pure copyright claim of stolen images used in commerce, by a for-profit company. 30k | Closed | Aesthetic Associates, Inc, PS | none | Big Mouth Speech Therapy | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0217 | -DMCA | NA | NA | They are trying to restore the pages with a fake DMCA. But their IP is from India as for the email received from Google. We suggest to ask their ID card to verify the identity of their account. | Closed | Fintelegram | none | Capital Solutions Ltd | Order to Dismiss Claim |
| 23-CCB-0216 | infringement | Original songs by Al Hadraa Band | Uploading sound recordings and audiovisual content that is owned by Al Hadraa band without a permission from the band members. | This is causing us financial harm as this content should only be available exclusively on our accounts. The user is pretending to be our client's official account. | Closed | Videohat LLC | none | Nour El Din Nageh Ali | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0215 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Upon receipt of the twenty (20) misrepresented DMCA notices, YouTube disabled all twenty (20) videos and assessed four (4) copyright strikes against my channel, resulting in the channel being scheduled for termination within seven (7) days pending adjudication of the twenty (20) counter notices. When a channel is scheduled for termination, no new content can be published. It took YouTube nineteen (19) days to adjudicate fifteen (15) of the counter notices, resulting in the restoration of my ability to publish. In addition to the financial harm caused by disabling access to those videos during those nineteen (19) days, over the same time period I was unable to publish my minimum once-daily new content, and as a result, viewership dramatically declined over that time period and still has yet to recover due YouTube’s algorithm deprioritizing channels which do not regularly publish. Although this has resulted in significant actual monetary damages as well as damage to my reputation, I am willing to defer seeking financial relief if the respondent is willing to agree to stop making misrepresentations and to stop sending false takedown notices. | Closed | Nima Gharavi | none | FloSports, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0214 | infringement | None given | Clayton Morris republished our video scripts in bulk without our permission to his Youtube channel which is called: Red Pilled Tv. Clayton Morris downloaded our content from our Youtube channel and re-uploaded to his channel as if it was his work. He monetized the stolen work and gained 2 million views and around 15,000 dollar revenue. This is Clayton Morris's youtube video with our video script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8iFWKMfjw | Clayton Morris re-uploaded our youtube video scripts with the same metadata, title, description, and keyword. That is why people watched his videos and not ours. He did it not once, but 15 times, which resulted in 2 million views and 15,000 dollar revenue to him with the stolen content. He used fake information in counter-notification so probably I won't get any revenue but the relief I'm seeking is that his channel be terminated. | Closed | Gergely Turi | none | Clayton Morris | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0213 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Lost time getting this counter claim rejected by google. Relief - withdraw the counter-claim. | Closed | CMED, LLC | none | Gary Stence | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0212 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Due to this the loss we have done - We give our cricket data to India for 30000 rupees per month fee, and this man has used our data for 3-4 months in theft and sold this data to others also, In this way, I have lost up to Rs.150,000 from work to work. I want this relief that this person should compensate for my loss and stop using my data, if my data is to be used by him, he can take it by giving me 30000 rupees per month. And the accompanying Google Play Store team should not bring this application back live under any circumstances until this person compensates for our losses. | Closed | Latiyal Infotech Private Limited | none | Daily Dose | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0211 | infringement | Slogan or description for a product being sold. | On April 19th,2018, I created a slogan for a product, which was intended to be listed alongside the product on an e-commerce website, as well as on the back of the blister packaging for the product. Originally, I intended to work with Alexandra and Route One Apparel to bring this product to market on their website. However, she pulled out of our agreement and decided to copy my product and then perform indefensibly clear and deliberate copyright infringement by copying and pasting the slogan/product description that I wrote for use on their website. It was the identical product description used without my permission or knowledge. The copyright was assigned in 2022 but dated to 2018. See below for reference to my copyright and what was on her website. To my knowledge, the first publication of this work was on March 26, 2021, when I reviewed her website to see if she was selling a product similar to mine. Copyright certificates create a rebuttable presumption that the work in question is copyrightable if the copyright is registered within the first five years of the work being created. Bus. Mgmt. Int'l v. Labyrinth Bus. Sols., LLC, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24900 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. | I suffered various forms of harm. First would be monetary harm, for the time and money spent working with lawyers to understand if I have a case and then to help prepare information. Second, would be infringer's profits because Alexandra and Route One Apparel used my copyright to market and sell a product in which I did not receive any money. Third would be statutory damages, Alexandra willfully used the copyright that I shared with her via email and should therefore be punished to the fullest extent. I would also include damage to reputation, loss of control, and infringement of moral rights. | Certified | Joseph Rooney | none | Alexandra Von Paris | Proof of Service |
| 23-CCB-0210 | infringement | A photograph I took of my father skiing | In early 2023, it came to my attention that an unknown individual had created an account on instagram impersonating my father using a photograph of him skiing as a profile picture. The individual was messaging my father's friends, I believe in an attempt to scam them in the method described here: https://www.wral.com/story/don-t-accept-that-facebook-friend-request-cross-platform-messaging-scam-making-a-comeback/20309777/. Since that time, I have contacted instagram with DMCA takedown requests on multiple occasions, asking them to remove the infringing photograph or the user's profile altogether. I have carefully specified that it is the profile picture of the account that is the infringing photograph. It is difficult to obtain direct links to profile pictures on instagram because of the way the site is coded, but in the most recent request, I managed to obtain a direct URL (the same one I link to above) to the photograph and sent them that URL as well. On each occasion, instagram has responded that I am linking to an entire profile, rather than a specific work that violates my copyright. However, on each occasion, I have been clear that it is the profile picture that violat | Statutory damages in the amount of $4999, and I would like Instagram to agree to take down the photograph. | Closed | Robert H Rankin, Jr | none | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim | |
| 23-CCB-0209 | infringement | Image of Lone Star Football Player #12 Ryder Mix | Unauthorized use of my photograph on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/LoboRecruits/status/1669666236467224577?s=20 My Copyright watermarks are clearly visible as well. | Loss of income due to non-payment of licensing usage fees. I am seeking $500. | Closed | Mike D Augustin | none | Emmanuel Charles-Lobo | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0208 | infringement | photograph of chickens in industrial chicken coops | Respondents copied the photograph in question and publicly displayed it on the website "Epsilon Theory" (www.epsilontheory.com). Claimant's photograph, which is still displayed publicly, was displayed alongside two blog posts promoting Respondents' goods and services. Claimant has never given Respondents permission or authority to copy or publicly display the photograph. Claimant notified Respondents of these allegations by email and by U.S. mail in December of 2020 and in March of 2021. Respondents never responded to these notices. As of filing, Respondents have removed the photograph from one portion of its website, the “Notes of the Field” page, but the photograph remains posted under the page “The Industrially Necessary Doctor Tedros,” and the images remain publicly accessible on Respondents' web servers. | Claimant is harmed by (1) the loss of licensing revenue, and (2) the lost scarcity value of the image which will negatively affect future licensing revenue. Under §1504(e)(1)(A)(ii) and §504(c) of the Copyright Act, Claimant is entitled to up to $15,000 statutory damages for the unauthorized use of the photograph, which was timely registered under §412 of the Act. | Certified | Grant Heilman Photography, Inc. | Romano PLLC | Second Foundation Partners LLC | Claim Response |
| 23-CCB-0207 | infringement | stock recommendation based on research and computed metrics using machine learning | I, Suraj Waghulde, the owner of tickerrank.com , have built machine learning models that take data from intrinio.com and eodHistoricaldata.com and rank the stocks in different verticals like growth, value, risk, market segment and market expansion generating these metrics (scores). My neighbor - Sameer Arora learned that I have built the model and built a stock recommendation engine from myself while our kids were playing in the community park. Sameer is very interested in stock market investing and talked me into providing him all the details of the model and learned that the model output is very good. Sameer copied all the ideas I had and along with his other friend Syed H Shah (who is the official owner of therocketstocks.com) built therocketstocks.com exactly imitating my idea and data. They have a secret 50% - 50% partnership between Sameer Arora and Syed Shah as Sameer was not a permanent resident of the US at the time I established my business https://www.tickerrank.com . Since I launched tickerrank.com in September 2020 therocketstocks.com has been copying 40% of our recommendations as Sameer is infringing the copyrighted data from TickerRank and selling it to Syed H | We lost prospective customers to https://www.therocketstocks.com/ . They have used our copyrighted data over past more than 2 years and earned a lot of money without our permission and doing an agreement. We lost more than $70,000 by losing the customers to therocketstocks.com which published our copyrighted data on multiple platform including https://www.therocketstocks.com/, whatsapp groups and could be on more social network applications. It caused a lot of headache and moral depression to original content creator - myself. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Tickerrank Inc | none | Sameer Arora | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 221.1(b) pending the outcome of the application for registration of copyright in the works at issue in the proceeding. The Board grants the claimant permission to request an expedited registration via eCCB if the claimant so desires. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf. In determining whether to request expedited registration, the claimant may wish to consider the Copyright Office’s current registration processing times at https://copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf. |
| 23-CCB-0206 | infringement | Photograph of individual | Respondent is the widow of Eugene Martin, an artist. I was acquainted with Eugene as well as Respondent. I took the picture in question in 1978 (which is noted at the bottom of the catalog page). Suzanne had access to the picture due to her relationship with Eugene. She knew at the time that I was the person who took the photograph, because I discussed copyrighting the picture then. We have had subsequent, recent conversations in which she acknowledged that I am the photographer of that picture. | To the extent that the Respondent is using the photograph to sell the artwork of the subject of the photograph across multiple forms of media and sources, a portion of Respondent's financial gain can be attributed to advertising the artwork for sale by using the photograph. I would like to be appropriately compensated for the use of the photograph. Any further use of the photograph must properly attribute me as the source of the photograph. | Certified | Alan Young | none | Suzanne Fredericq | Payment of Second Filing Fee |
| 23-CCB-0205 | infringement | Gripeo website containing exclusive investigation and consumer resources | Foreign actors have copied my website in order to suppress my reporting on the internet, and to illegally file DMCA takedown notices on offshore servers | I have been targeted by a rogue reputation agency and my investigative reporting of 2 years is being credited to foreign actors. | Closed | Gennaro lanza | none | Fintelegram Revealed | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0204 | infringement | FICTION BOOK | I am the sole author of the book/eBook initially titled, “The Desperate Fugitives.” I registered the copyright of this book with the U.S. Copyright Office and was given the registration number TXu001785919. Following registration, I renamed the book under two alternate titles, “Strangers in the Block,” and “The Secret Agenda.” “The Desperate Fugitives,” “Strangers in the Block,” and “The Secret Agenda” (individually and jointly “the Book”) all contain the same identical copyrighted material. In July 2022, I entered into an agreement (“the Agreement”) with AMAZON for the sale of my eBook on Amazon kindle platform and I uploaded my eBook to Amazon. In July 2022, I entered into an agreement (“the Agreement”) with AMAZON for the sale of my eBook on Amazon kindle platform and I uploaded my eBook to Amazon. In August 2022 I later terminated with Amazon eBook. In September 2022, I received a reply email confirming the termination of the Agreement. (Exhibit B). Despite the termination of the Agreement, Amazon continued to distribute and publicly display the eBook. With a price tag on google, when I complained to Google, Amazon moved its public display of my eBook to yahoo search | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $30,000. | Closed | FELICIA C WILLIAMS | none | AMAZON | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0203 | infringement-DMCA | Output displays of Voodoo Lines Stock Update for 1/27/2019 software | Each of the URLs offers for sale unauthorized copies of software which is the copyright-protected property of Managematics LLC either on its own or as part of a bundle. The software interoperates with the ThinkOrSwim trading platform from TD Ameritrade. This software does not allow for copy protection and, therefore, any individual who acquires a copy of the software can easily reproduce and redistribute the software from Managematics LLC. The genuine versions are only available directly from Managematics LLC or through its sole reseller, Simpler Trading. Each of the offerings from courseamz.com, mmocourse.org, and tradingaz.net cited in this claim indicate that such offerings are from Simpler Trading. Each of the offerings from courseamz.com, mmocourse.org, and tradingaz.net cited in this claim either offers by name the protected software from Managematics LLC by name, offers by name a bundle from Simpler Trading known to include the protected software of Managematics LLC and/or is a bundle which specifically lists the protected software of Managemats LLC as being a constituent of the bundle. The web pages offering unauthorized content for sale employ a range of de | Managematics LLC has suffered Lost sales, loss of reputation, and infringement of its exclusive rights in its protected works. It is seeking statutory damages. | Closed | Managematics LLC | none | mmocourse.org | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0202 | infringement | A Italian sound for drama movies ,in violin | The instrumental that is on laff tv was took from me and used by them so they could make millions of dollars from people laughing but with my sound. It is a violin play that coincides with the dance that they do when they hold hands and walk across the floor | I've became famous but with a defamed recognition and it is a shame that I was ruthlessly robbed of my sounds without being notified because we could have worked out a deal and I'm still willing to make a deal to pay me a large sum of 30,000.00 but be able to work with laff tv to play the music they took and both of us receive a financial term for doing so. If they don't want to work with me well my 30,000.00 will be fine thanks to them possibly using my physical disability against me to say that I will never get around to even noticing it was my music and the triumph of trying to have a copyright that will not get took and instead asked to be worked with for a fair financial term for both parties but I was robbed and it isn't right. | Closed | Poitier D Mcdaniel | none | Laff tv | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0201 | infringement | A styled photoshoot by Ethereal Co LC | My photographs are being used for advertising without my permission | My art is being falsely passed off as someone else's and being used to advertise for their businesses to make them revenue off of my hard work and art without my consent. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Andrea B Cregger | none | www.oneirphotography.com | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 221.1(b) pending the outcome of the application for registration of copyright in the works at issue in the proceeding. The Board grants the claimant permission to request an expedited registration via eCCB if the claimant so desires. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf. In determining whether to request expedited registration, the claimant may wish to consider the Copyright Office’s current registration processing times at https://copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf. |
| 23-CCB-0200 | infringement-DMCA | Livestream from YouTube Channel | Mr. Thompson edited selected portions of my copyrighted work and published several videos containing only edits of my copyrighted work. | Mr. Thompson is using these reproductions of my content in order to defame, antagonize and otherwise intentionally inflict emotional distress, in addition to misrepresenting my character and intimidating me as a plaintiff in an ongoing civil lawsuit. | Closed | Todd M Schultz | none | Michael C Thompson | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0199 | infringement | Commercial campaign | Bosley is posting work via their YouTube channel and other social media platforms that I have not authorized the release to them. I was the Director, so the creative content was performed by me and the intellectual property is mine. I also produced the content as my duties included: creating the content, organizing the shoot, negotiating, advising on locations and scheduling. In addition, I performed the post-editing. I have a copyright filing for this content and it is provided within the evidence. I was not a "work for hire" employee as there was no expressly written agreement between me any other company, Therefore, there was no agreement that the work would be considered "made for hire", nor did I sign anything from any company involved stating this. | Bosley continues to use the content that I have created, produced, directed and edited without monetary compensation. I have explicitly advised them not to use it and filed an official copyright filing and multiple YouTube disputes. | Closed | Bobby Razak | none | Bosley | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0198 | infringement | city approved drawing | (1) For at least two (2) times, forging my architect stamp in a permit plan submitted to the City of Pasadena (City). (2) For at least four (4) times, using CHD / my name as the Architect In Record (officially filed with the City) in a permit plan without CHD’s / my consent or authorization. (3) For at least four (4) times, using CHD’s plan drawings in a permit plan without CHD’s / my consent or authorization. (4) Obtaining a building permit and starting constructions based on an approved permit plan with the forged architect stamp and CHD’s Plan drawings and CHD / my name as the Architect In Record without CHD’s or my consent or authorization. (5) Final city approval drawing still use CHD's copyright materials. (6) The infringement action still going until today. | Harm to my business and profession. Harm to my reputation. Harm to loss of business opportunity. Harm to carry wrongful liability. I am seeking punitive damage $30,000 to punish the respondents to deter future fraudulent and malicious misconduct. Request to remove all CHD's copyright materials from the city record doc. The infringement action still going until today. Need to stop the infringement action. | Closed | ERIC LIN | none | Hank Chang | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0197 | infringement | Livestream Youtube Video | He took clips of the footage and sound of a video from my channel without my permission and then attempted to edit and present as his own video | I am simply seeking to see the video removed from Youtube because I own the video and did not give any permission for him to distribute the video or to edit and change the video | Closed | Onnie Dixon | none | John Ellis | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0196 | infringement | Photograph of a living room made for an interior designer client's portfolio. | In March of 2023, an online image monitoring service notified me that one of my photos had been published on the website Trendey.com. The publication could have occurred much earlier than March, but that is when a search was performed which showed the photo displayed on the website. Without seeking or receiving my permission, Trendey.com posted my copyrighted photograph on its commercial website, which is monetized through advertisements and affiliate referral fees. The photograph is of a living room scene, and it was made for a client of mine who is an interior designer. Screenshots of the infringing usage were made, which show the photo displayed on the homepage of Trendey.com, and as the large headline image at the top of the article in which it was used. The unlicensed publication represents a clear infringement of my copyright to the photograph. I acknowledge that the photograph has been removed from the Trendey.com site after my initial contact. However, such removal, although required, does not address the issue of monetary damages resulting from the illegal copyright infringement. The owner of Trendey.com has claimed protection from liability under the DMCA S | The infringing usage devalues my photograph, deprived me of licensing revenue, and has taken a great deal of my time to address. Repeated requests for a reasonable settlement payment were denied. I am seeking statutory damages of $2,800 for the infringement of my copyrighted work. | Closed | Patrick Brennan | none | Trendey, LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0195 | infringement | Illustrated map of professional soccer clubs in Great Britain | Respondent has been selling a counterfeit version of our design on Etsy, where we also sell our original work. The only difference between the version they've been selling and ours is that a "vintage" sepia tone has been applied to the entire work. Otherwise, the counterfeit version is identical. We filed a DMCA takedown request, and respondent filed a counter-claim, despite knowing that they were not the owner or creator of the work. | Respondent has been selling a counterfeit version of our work, depriving us of revenue and causing confusion among the public as to the rightful owner of the work. | Closed | Pop Chart Lab, Inc | none | Kelly Schafer | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0194 | infringement | New created work by Myself. | Took correspondence and copyright rights and performed and recorded copies of correspondence. | Could have sold rights other than to the man now known as Sting and require payment of this transferal of registered materials. | Closed | chad J carriker | none | UMG Recordings, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0193 | infringement | The cockpit voice recording transcript from Braniff International Flight 352, which was lost at Dawson, Texas, on May 3, 1968 | A Ft. Worth Star Telegram reporter obtained an unauthorized copy of our Braniff International Flight 352 Cockpit Voice Recording and proceeded to post it on the Ft. Worth Star Telegram's website and on their YouTube page. We filed complaint with YouTube and the video of the transcript was taken down but Ft Worth Star Telegram filed a counter response, which has forced us to file this action. Please note that it is against Department of Transportation regulations to release or distribute cockpit voice recording tapes for any reason other than ongoing litigation. This was conveyed to Ft. Worth Star Telegram but was ignored. Ft Worth Star Telegram obtained the unauthorized copy of the tape from the archives of Seller's Recording Studio in Dallas, Texas. In June 1968, Braniff's Vice President Harry McKillop hired Seller's to transcribe the tape with specific instructions for only three copies to be recorded including a copy for the Department of Transportation; the Federal Aviation Administration and finally, Braniff Airways, Incorporated. Braniff has asked that Ft. Worth Star Telegram return the fourth unauthorized copy of the tape to Braniff but it has not fulfilled this reque | The unauthorized release of this tape caused great grief to the families and Braniff employees lost or involved in the accident. Further, it was believed that Braniff had released the tape to generate hype and promotion for the April 28, 2023, Braniff Flight 352 Texas Historical Marker reveal ceremony, an act that Braniff would never commit or involve itself in at any time or for any reason. In addition, it has enabled countless millions to view and hear the private and copyrighted conversations of Braniff employees that were on the transcript and tape without their authorization, which is a direct violation of work place privacy. The families of the employees that were involved with the flight have been subjected to unnecessary scrutiny especially since the pilot and Braniff were ultimately blamed for the accident. | Closed | Richard B Cass | none | Collin L Ice | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0192 | infringement | Music | The respondent's use of licensed beats he does not have full or any exclusive rights to as stated in the license they have purchased. I am terminating the licenses they have purchased & he has not taken the songs down. He has not deleted or erased any of the license media I am terminating after requesting several times as of 6/1/2023. | I have asked repeatedly and I have been ignored. My work is being used without my permission after I have repeatedly told them they do not have full rights to Beat Licenses. The relief will be him taking down every song using my beats as well as the permanent deletion & cease of access to all Beat & Song files in their & any third parties involved possession. The only one that should have access to all of my music media is me because I have private & removed all of my music media from all platforms. | Closed | Kyle M Anderson | none | Elijah A Garrett | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0191 | infringement | The work is the musical composition itself; The underlying melodies, harmonies, and arrangement of notes constitutes the work irrespective of instrumentation, production, arrangement, or tone quality of sound recording. | The respondent released and published publicly an unauthorized derivative work entirely based on my compositional property. The respondent did so without properly crediting me for my work on the underlying compositional elements used to create the infringing work. I asked the respondent, before the release was published, to properly name me in the release credit of the infringing work. The respondent refused to comply with my request for credit. | The infringing work used my compositional information enough that it would not be clear to the general listener who was the original author of the underlying composition. This damages my reputation to mutual parties between the respondent and I. This damage to my reputation has a direct effect on my ability to become involved in musical collaborations with other parties and music producers. It causes undue stress, emotional hardship, and protecting my copyrights takes away significant amounts of my time and attention that would otherwise be focused on my normal business. The relief I am seeking is a determination of infringement from the CCB. I am also seeking relief for costs because it is my belief that the infringing party has acted in bad faith during the counter claims process. | Closed | Tyler E Barnes | none | Thomas Reeves | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0190 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | JIANGXI JUWEN TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD | none | Google LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0189 | infringement | None given | Infringer uploaded and monetized content without permission. Thus resulting in profits going to the infringing party. | We'd like to be paid for the use of our content as profits were made and the value of our content goes down each time it is posted online. | Closed | Prevent Copyright, LLC | none | Sandres Shaker | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0188 | infringement | Fictional illustrated book about an imaginary historical robot | The infringing book, titled "The One-World Tartarians: The Greatest Civilization Ever Erased from History," is an alternative history of humanity, presented as truth, which includes many images to illustrate its conspiracy-theory narrative. Among those images, displayed on page 183, are nine images taken directly from claimant's work, and can be found on pages 8, 45, 55, 63, 65, 97, 106, and 135 of "Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel." (Found on pages 8, 26, 31, 35, 36, 52, 57, and 71 of the submitted pdf.) The images in question are photo-montages created by claimants using public-domain photographs and original art. | Respondent's profits from the sale of "The One World Tartarians," as well as statutory damages for willful infringement. Respondent has was notified via e-mail of its infringement approximately six months ago, and has failed to respond or remove the infringing work from sale or distribution. | Closed | Paul Guinan | Verite Law Company | James W Lee | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0187 | infringement | The work is a base track over which separate vocal tracks were intended to be layered | Respondents Ralph O. Selby, Karen Selby, and (upon information and belief) Kalamazoo Regional Theater LLC associated for the purpose of creating, producing, and presenting for profit a musical play known as TWO PRINCES (the “Play”). Claimant shall refer to this association as “The Association.” Claimant asserts The Association constitutes a partnership under New York law, and that the respondents are jointly and severally liable for the alleged infringements. On August 24, 2020, Respondents Ralph O. Selby and Karen Selby entered into a written agreement with Claimant, whereby Claimant would create the score, orchestrations, and new music for the Play. (Original music and lyrics were authored by Respondent Ralph O. Selby, and Claimant asserts no claim to those underlying works.) Claimant authored and delivered to Respondents the works set forth in Reg. No. PAU004171017 and Reg. No. SRu001541199. The Parties subsequently had a falling out and informally agreed to terminate the August 24, 2020 agreement. In January, 2023 Claimant’s counsel delivered a proposed termination agreement to Respondents whereby, in part: Respondents would agree to cease any use of Claimant’s work; | For the alleged infringements of the works set forth in Reg. No. PAU004171017 Claimant seeks actual damages of $6,250 and an order to cease all present and future use. The registration date for Reg. No. SRu001541199 is May 4, 2023. Upon information and belief, the works set forth in that registration are unpublished because Respondents made them available on SoundCloud for listening but not download. Claimant reserves the right to examine this point further as the proceeding progresses. Assuming it to be correct, however, Claimant seeks statutory damages of $3,000 for each of the three works identified in this proceeding – for a total of $9,000 and an order to cease all present and future use. Claimant has captured and attaches evidence of this infringing activity occurring after the date of registration. (Note, as well: the filenames contain Claimant’s initials. Respondents posted Claimant’s own sound recording files.) Total award requested, based on the foregoing: $15,250. | Certified | Autumn M Reed | Law Office of Elizabeth T Russell LLC | Kalamazoo Regional Theater LLC | Order Staying Proceeding |
| 23-CCB-0186 | infringement | Drawing Painting | Respondent used the artwork on various articles of clothing that he advertised for sale on instagram and on its website limitedego.com. The work is the exact replica of the artist's artwork. | Respondent infringed on Claimant's right to license, sell or otherwise profit from her artwork or the right to chose not to do so. Furthermore, Respondent sold an unknown amount of clothing containing Claimant's artwork. Claimant seeks the following: (1) Compensatory and punitive damages for Respondents' infringement; (2) Reasonable attorney fees; (3) Any and all profits Respondents made for selling items containing Claimant's artwork; (4) The destruction of any other items in Respondents' possession containing her artwork; (5) An injunction preventing Respondent from further infringing on Claimant's rights; and (6) Any other relief the board deems fair and just. | Certified | Shanelle Royster | Royster Law, LLC | Kyle Richardson | Second Notice to Register for eCCB |
| 23-CCB-0185 | infringement | Songs by Al Hadra Band | Uploading content owned by our client without a permission. | We're seeking to delete this content and the account as it's violating our copyrights. | Closed | VideoHat LLC | none | YouTube LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0184 | infringement | None given | Uploader uploaded a compilation. Our video appears at the timestamps 6:36-7:00. | Uploader generated revenue from content that which we exclusively own the rights to. | Closed | Prevent Copyright, LLC | none | Sandres Shaker | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0183 | infringement | The book: Winning Isn’t Normal was created in 1981, published in 1982, and further copyrighted in 1989 (TX 0002 672 644). The book Winning Isn’t Normal was built upon the text also titled “Winning Isn’t Normal” that appears on page 8 of the Introduction of the book. Winning Isn’t Normal is my original, creative expression and consists of examples and elaborations of my philosophy of what I believe is the best approach to outperforming the competition in sports and all other endeavors in which success is desirable. | On September 30, 2020 I discovered that American Ranch Horse Association (AHRA) posted one of my copyrighted works on their Facebook account on December 17, 2019 without obtaining the permission or the necessary licenses from me. This infringing content was left up for at least 11 months, during which time it was instantaneously distributed to AHRA's 19,648 followers. Furthermore, the post has induced at least 142 other individuals to share the work with their followers, thereby exacerbating the unauthorized dissemination of my copyrighted work. It is also believed that the post may have violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by infringing upon the Copyright Management Information. | Had AHRA purchased a poster or book for everyone that received my work as a result of AHRA's distribution, the cost would be well over $800,000. l am seeking $30,000 in damages for these infringing actions. | Closed | Keith Bell | none | American Ranch Horse Association, c/o Mike Coblenz | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0182 | infringement | Photograph of champagne bottle | Respondent used subject images in online advertising without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. | Statutory damages in the maximum permissible by law Respondent's profits attributable to the infringements Claimant's costs and attorney fees | Closed | Alan DeHerrera | Law Office of Eric Ridley | G. K. Skaggs, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0181 | infringement | Book and Screenplay | Author's Book was used without any notification. The Book was used to create a Major Motion Picture. This infringement of the Novel of real life characters and entails future events from the Author. This infringement has cause issues for the Author to create very own adaptation for a Major Motion Picture. Said Works also served for Self Biography and the Creation of Book also produced Music Album recordings. | This infringement has cause issues for the Author to create very own adaptation for a Major Motion Picture. | Closed | Sean A Tewodros Linzy | none | Storyteller Distribution Company, LLC and Storyteller Development, LLC | Order Denying Request to Link Peter Ge Kandilou with the Storyteller Distribution Company, LLC and Storyteller Development, LLC party |
| 23-CCB-0180 | infringement | Audio Visual Podcast on Youtube Platform | On or around 04/10/2022 I discovered an unpermitted rebroadcast of my work (SR- 1-12591497331) Titled "Umm Really? - The Morning Show 8/3/22" on Youtube Channel entitled "TIffany" in an unaltered and untransformed state. I issued a copyright takedown notice to the platform Youtube which was in turn counter claimed as their own "Fair Use" broadcast, despite the channel not being a licensed media company and therefore not falling under section 107 of the copyright law. This counterclaim issued back to me by the Youtube platform informed me that I am to file legal action before any further progress would be made towards removal. The location of my original content is from August 3rd 2022, and is found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7qpP-374yI The location of the infringing content is from on or about April 10, 2023 and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8mfHsdNd3E with the used having set the rebroadcast into a "private" state to circumvent the takedown of the published work. In all of my published content there is a disclaimer stating that none of my work may be reproduced in part or all without express given permission. | As a result of Ms. Tiffany Moser's unauthorized reproduction lost revenue was suffered. Search results for my content erroneously leads viewers to her content, which is monetized and as a result she gains the ad revenue that I normally would earn. As well, since my channel is also monetized this leads to direct loss of the same ad revenue for my own content. | Closed | Crafton W Barnes | none | Tiffany Moser | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0179 | infringement | YouTube Video (Audio Podcast) | (Estimated date of publishing of infringing material, on or around 4/1/23) On May 5th, 2023 I discovered a rebroadcast of my work (SR 1-12591497331. Titled: LifeInTheBarnes: Morning Talk Radio Show 3/20/23). that had been uploaded onto YouTube Channel "Angela's Clips & Giggles"- located at https://www.youtube.com/@angelasclipsgiggles, a channel exclusively devoted to the reupload of other users content, unaltered, aside from speeding up or slowing down the original audio work. I issued a copyright takedown through YouTube on May the 5th, and Angela Pharris issued a counter on May the 12th, rendering the takedown invalid. My work originally aired on my channel "LifeInTheRedKim" located at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6vPaip2LuNFu0V3Gg9k9Q on March the 20th 2023 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7em4AZCb1Mg. In all my audio & video work there is a legal disclaimer and notice in the description section prohibiting unauthorized use or re-airing of the copyrighted material. | As a result of Angela Pharris's unauthorized reproduction, lost revenue was suffered. Search results for my content erroneously lead viewers to her content and enriched her through the views, interactions and use of my content to redirect web and platform traffic. As all of my channel content is monetized, I am paid ad revenue on a per view basis that was lost as a result of her infringement. | Closed | Kimberly K Cole-Barnes | none | Angela Pharris | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0178 | infringement | All Sound recordings except Performance recordings by Rihanna | I HAVE A SONGFILE ON THE HARRY FOX AGENCY WEBSIT SINCE 1984 WITH SONGS UNDER MY NAME WHERE ARTIST WOULD HAVE TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE USING MY SONGS. I HAVE NEVER BEEN PAID BY ANY OF THE ARTIST FOR SONY OR UNIVERSAL AND THEY KEEP TAKING OUT OF MY SOUNDEXCHANGE CATALOG. MY BMI AND THE MLC CATALOGS, THEY EVEN STOPPED UPLOADING ALL MY WORKS AND ADDING UP SONG CREDITS ON THE MLC CATALOG. BMI KEEPS REJECTING CLAIMS ALTHOUGH THERE NOW AROUND DISTRIBUTION THEY WILL TAKE THEM OUT. | I HAVE EXPERIENCED SEVERE HEADACHES AS I LET ALL OF THESE ARTIST RECORD AND PERFORM ALL OF MY MATERIAL FOR DECADES. ONLY FOR ME TO FIND OUT THE ARTIST IS ONLY GETTING 1 PERCENT OF THE ROYALTY FROM BMI. I DONT KNOW HOW MUCH THEY ARE GETTING FROM THE OTHER SOUNDEXCHANGE AND THEMLC | Closed | Rhonda J Pawnell | none | Sony Music | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0177 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption/docket | Not available | See caption/docket | temp |
| 23-CCB-0176 | infringement | 1970 film produced by Beast of Blood Company directed by Eddie Romero and filmed in the Philippines | copied the film owned by claimant and is distributing the film illegally online and possibly in other media and territories | Violating our exclusive rights and falsely claiming ownership of this film and causing people to question our rights by falsely claiming ownership. | Certified | Independent-International Pictures Corp. | none | Cinevision Global Inc. | Proof of Service Certified |
| 23-CCB-0175 | infringement | God is a Real Estate Developer by Michelle Shocked / co-authored Mat Fox | Warner Music Group distributed this unlicensed sound recording and musical composition on the above named digital channels as well as physical distribution of unlicensed works on online third party marketplaces. | Distribution without license deprived me of the right and potential revenue to license my work. I am seeking full statutory relief | Closed | Michelle Shocked | none | Warner Music Group | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice - Opt-Out |
| 23-CCB-0174 | infringement | Photograph of a plant | Original work was copied, modified and displayed on infringer's website available to the public | Seeking damages for loss of licensing revenue and harm caused by commercialization of unauthorized reproduction of original work and creation of derivative work without author's consent | Certified | Patricia Curi | The Brickell IP Group, PLLC | WOODSTOCK MEDICINAL DOCTORS, INC. | Second Notice - WOODSTOCK MEDICINAL DOCTORS, IN, sent on 11/20/2023 |
| 23-CCB-0173 | infringement | Title of Work: Reverie (sound recording, performance, production, music). I am also the owner of the original composition in addition to the recording. | My work was used in the streaming version of Cheers, Season 5, Episode 26 as the featured music at the end of the episode. I have not been provided with Sync Licenses (one as copyright owner and one as sound recording owner) or compensation for this usage, nor I have I received any notification or credit. Paramount+ has claimed that they have access to my catalog of works through a company called Music Dealers Publishing. I have no record of being involved with this company and Paramount+ has not provided me with any documentation. Music Dealers Publishing was listed on my PRO (ASCAP) cue sheet along with In Grooves Publishing, which has since removed their claim to my work in ASCAP because In Grooves Publishing has confirmed that I have never been in their catalog (I have email documentation showing this). The first time this episode of Cheers appeared on my cue sheet was in 2019. After doing some research, I have found that Music Dealers Publishing went out of business in 2016, three full years before my music was used in this episode. So, despite Paramount+'s insistence that they have rights to use my work through a deal with Music Dealers Publishing (which again, I hav | I was never provided with a Sync License for usage of my composition and sound recording in this episode and was never notified of the usage. I only discovered this usage when a Cheers fan used the app Shazam to identify me and they reached out to me online. I was not aware of this usage because I had not been in my PRO (ASCAP) account since about 2016/17 since switching careers (due to lack of payment for my work, such as this usage). If I had known my work was being used in a Cheers episode, I would have kept my album up for sale. I should be appropriately credited for my work appearing in this episode, including through ISMDb account, so that I can try to actually build more sync opportunities and sell albums. In addition to not having a Sync License in place for usage of my work, this work is also coded as "background music" on my PRO (ASCAP) cue sheet, which I assume yields lower royalty rates. My music replaced an Irving Berlin composition and is clearly not background music (in fact, the closed captioning doesn't even list my work title, it lists the original Irving Berlin composition title). It is a featured piece that sets the stage for this season finale of Cheers | Certified | Luke Rackers | none | Paramount Global | As discussed during the Settlement Conference on December 21, 2023, the parties have reached an agreement in principle to settle the claim and will notify the CCB of the status of their settlement agreement by January 3, 2024. |
| 23-CCB-0172 | infringement-DMCA | Daisy Wall Decals | Claimant operates a successful Etsy store selling wall decals. Due to Claimant's success, entities and individuals believed to be in China replicate the work and list it for sale on sites such as www.aliexpress.com and others. Respondent admitted to purchasing the work from China. Claimant submitted a DMCA takedown request through Etsy, to which Respondent submitted a counter-notification. Claimant, through an attorney, sent a cease and desist letter to Respondent demanding that Claimant cease using the work. Respondent continues to use the work despite the DMCA and despite communication with Claimant's attorney. | Lost sales, loss of reputation, dilution and confusion in the marketplace, expenses incurred for attorneys, etc. | Closed | Kenna Sato Designs, LLC | Gurr Brande & Spendlove, PLLC | Julia Lisitsa | Final Determination - Settlement |
| 23-CCB-0171 | infringement | Software for working in the field or neural networks and AI | We are writing to express our concerns regarding the extension “AIB Prompts - AI Best Prompts for ChatGPT” (dacncaemlfalkbcbjjhjofehfbncacoo). Upon careful analysis of the code, we have reason to believe that this extension is a near identical copy of a previous version of our own extension (AIPRM for ChatGPT v1.1.3.30 / ojnbohmppadfgpejeebfnmnknjdlckgj), despite the author’s efforts to make it difficult to compare by minifying and renaming the source code files with a .min.js suffix. We hold the copyright for the code used in our extension, and we have good faith to believe that the publishing of the “AIB Prompts - AI Best Prompts for ChatGPT” (dacncaemlfalkbcbjjhjofehfbncacoo) extension constitutes a violation of our copyrighted code. We have stated this clearly in our terms. In addition to the mentioned IP violation the extension “AIB Prompts - AI Best Prompts for ChatGPT” (dacncaemlfalkbcbjjhjofehfbncacoo) provides most of our content duplicated and provided as theirs, which underlines their malicious behavior. This matter has emerged previously with the extension “AI Best Prompts” (mjleijebibkimdhhgpnbddfckldienfc), which was subsequently removed from the Chrome We | Loss of revenue, loss of new user signups. Damage expected to have surpassed $25.000 in April 2023 alone. | Closed | AIPRM, Corp. | AIPRM, Corp. | Công ty cổ phần đào tạo Học Viện AI | DownloadFinding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0170 | infringement | None given | The respondent is using the exact copy of my song for his youtube channel in which is a monetized youtube channel. I did not grant permission to use my song in this manner. | My copyrights have been infringed and I am seeking to get a ruling in my favor to be able to successfully win my YouTube copyright claim and in doing so restoring my rights. | Closed | Christopher Adams | none | Mark Avington | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0169 | infringement | Marcus Brimage (left) covers up from an uppercut punch thrown by Conor McGregor during the 'UFC on Fuel 9: Mousasi vs. Latifi' event inside the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, on 6 April 2013 | This claim for copyright infringement is made jointly and severally against the corporate entity Experience the Fight Media LLC, and its sole director and CEO, Mr. Saif Ibraheem, in his personal capacity. Mr. Ibraheem and/or Experience the Fight Media LLC engage in for-profit business activities under various names such as "Ultimate Fan Experience", "UFE World", "UFE Media", "UFE NFT", and possibly other stylings that are unknown to me at this time. The infringement relates to an original photographic work that was created by me on 6 April 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden, and provided under license to my client, SB Nation (a subsidiary of Vox Media, Inc.), on that same date; the photograph was promptly published by my client to their website MMAFighting.com. An archival copy of my client's published use may be viewed at the following URL https://web.archive.org/web/20130408235448/http://www.mmafighting.com/ufc/2013/4/6/4191584/irish-conor-mcgregor-booked-for-boston-fight-after-sensational-ufc On 27 March 2020, the same client (SB Nation) published the photograph in question on one of their Twitter accounts, as permitted by the terms of the prior license granted to them. This pub | The harm suffered is my loss of ordinary licensing revenues for the derivative use of my work as part of the respondent's social media engagement efforts in connection with their for-profit business activities, which would otherwise have required both advance consent and payment. I have licensed similar uses of my work to other client and non-client entities for fees up to high four-figure sums and can provide evidence of such licenses if necessary. As such, the respondent's use of my original work represents a breach of my rights under 17 U.S.C. § 106, being that the respondents and/or their employees or agents first copied my work, then used that copy to prepare a derivative of my work, and subsequently communicated the derivative to the public by way of publication to three separate social media accounts under their control. In overlaying my photograph with a logo/text reading "UFE Ultimate Fan Experience", implying ownership of my photograph, the respondents also breached 17 U.S.C. § 1202 (a)(2), as the logo/text would meet the definition of copyright management information as set out in 17 U.S.C. § 1202 (c). Consequently, I am seeking related relief under 17 U.S.C. § | Certified | Martin McNeil | none | Experience the Fight Media LLC | Response to Order to Show Cause |
| 23-CCB-0168 | infringement-DMCA | Poster consisting of various exercises to perform with a kettlebell | This seller was selling a copy of our Kettlebell workout poster with minor modifcations to it in his Etsy store located at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1338583379/kettlebell-workouts-poster-fitness (content has since been removed). I submitted a DMCA takedown notice to Etsy. The seller submitted a fraudulent counter notice which required me to file this action. | The seller is selling unauthorized copies of our kettlebell poster which we also sell online and is depriving us of sales. | Closed | Chris Blackerby | none | Edgar Ramos | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0167 | infringement | Image compares two images of the right foot and ankle. The first image reveals the normal foot position, the second image shows the pronated foot position. | Three unauthorized uses of our image on their website, discovered on 2/26/23 at 8:03 pm through a TinEye search, which is corroborated by the Wayback Machine (archive.org) as shown here: http://web.archive.org/web/20141220212557/http://www.footankle.com:80/toe-conditions/big-toe-pain/. No information on how they acquired our image, but they have no license for its use through us. No third parties have ever been given permission to re-license that image, either. Comparison of our image (on the left) and the image used on their site (on the right): https://infringements-cache.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/c1351c7d4e6d40b30264b8e8c499d4bb.jpg | We were prevented from collecting license fees for the image for respondent's use. The value of such a license for three uses and over the time period it is confirmed to have been used is $3,270.00. That amount is the relief we are seeking. | Closed | Nucleus Medical Media | none | Foot & Ankle Center of Washington | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0166 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | Jingle for a fake comedic local commercial | Mr. Hines improperly register a copyright to the song featured in the video that he holds no copyright in. The copyright owners have an agreement with Mr. Hines, who appears as the main talent in the video and actually sings the song, where Mr. Hines agreed to assign all copyright and intellectual property rights in and around his performance in the video to the copyright owners. | The claimants have experienced reputational harm due to Respondent continuously attacking/harassing/bullying/defaming the claimants regarding the copyright and asserting that he has a valid copyright and that the claimants are infringing on his improperly registered copyright. The claimants are seeking the maximum statutory damages allowed for copyright infringement and the revocation of Respondent's improper/faulty copyright registration. | Closed | Pedro R Castro | Weiss & Di Giovanni, LLP | Robert L Hines | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0165 | infringement | An mobile game app which supports various monster makeover. | The infringed party (MeeGame Studio) copied and used exactly similar program code sources and images. | After the infringed party copied and launched our game app, there was big drop on our sales and download scores. People does not know what is original or copied. | Closed | ZZOO Inc. | none | MeeGame Studio | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0164 | infringement-DMCA | Documentary | They have distributed my footage and visual material that I own without my permission or consent. They have monetized my own video footage that is copyrighted. | An immense loss of revenue as they have taken my video footage. Damages suffered through the result of them profiting off these infringing videos. | Closed | Desiree Bard | none | Raheem McCaskill | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0163 | infringement | FICTION BOOK | I am the sole author of the book initially titled, “The Desperate Fugitives.” I registered the copyright of this book with the U.S. Copyright Office and was given the registration number TXu001785919. Following registration, I renamed the book under two alternate titles, “Strangers in the Block”, and “The Secret Agenda”. “The Desperate Fugitives,” “Strangers in the Block”, and “The Secret Agenda” (individually and jointly “the Book”) all contain the same identical copyrighted material. I used the respondents services for Print ON Demand basis to print and distribute my book, but cancelled with them. But they continued to print and distribute to online book vendors with no accountability up until 2022 even though i cancelled with them in july 2020 and the cancellation was confirmed. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $30,000, whichever is larger. | Closed | FELICIA c WILLIAMS | none | INGRAM SPARK | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0162 | infringement | This work consists of both a Sound Recording and a Musical Composition. | I am asserting copyright infringement, with respect to the master recording (“Master”) and the musical composition (“Composition”) embodied in the Master entitled “Good Day”. This Master features the recorded performances of Artists, Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki, collectively p/k/a Surfaces (“Artist” or “Respondents”) and was released October 19, 2019 by TENTHOUSAND PROJECTS, LLC (“Respondents”). The Master and Composition contains the unauthorized use of my Original Master Recording and Original Musical Composition entitled “Bossa Nova Guitar” (“My Work”), which was created January 30, 2019. Respondents have continued to argue that they do not have to clear usage of My Work because they downloaded it from the Website, Looperman.com, and therefore My Work should be deemed royalty free. However, the Terms of Service of Looperman clearly state, "While you may use loops in your own productions / tracks / video soundtracks etc you can NOT claim copyright of those loops as is or as part of your original composition. You may claim copyright of your composition but NOT of any content that is downloaded from looperman.com. Should you wish to use a loop for commercial or non-commercia | I have suffered tremendous harm as Respondents have improperly claimed copyright ownership of my Work without proper clearance or payment of any fees, sound recording royalties, or compositional royalties to me. Meanwhile, Respondents have continued to profit from this willful infringement and unauthorized use of my Work. The relief that I am seeking is as follows: Any revenue and/or profits reaped by Respondents through the unauthorized use of my work, actual damages incurred by me due to the unauthorized use of my work, any available statutory damages due to the unauthorized use of my work, and ownership in all copyrights which were derived from the use of my work. I am also seeking any other relief that this Court deems just and proper. I would also request that the Court stop's the infringement and make the Respondent's provide the following: The source from which Respondents obtained my Work, including without limitation any documents purporting to assign, license, or transfer to any rights in or to use the my Work; The date on which Respondents first posted, published, displayed, or in any way exploited my Work; The name of the individual(s) responsible for pu | Closed | Timur Sajachmetov | none | Surfaces, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0161 | infringement | Some articles that appeared in a newspaper, the New York Ties | On the dates indicated I wrote and had published the group copyrighted works for the New York Times. There was no written contract but according to Copyright Law, the absence of a written contract grants a publisher only First North American Serial Rights, with all rights reverting to the author after publication. The New York Times subsequently posted the works online and passed some of them on to other online newspapers; the works are still available online. According to copyright law, electronic rights must be negotiated separately from print rights. In my case, no electronic rights were ever negotiated. | The New York Times has, essentially, used my work without my permission. Normally, I and other authors receive compensation for subsequent publication electronically. The New York Times also had no right to pass any of the work on to other online. If that had been their desire, compensation should have been negotiated with me. I am seeking a sum of $2500 for the infringement. | Closed | LEE REICH | none | THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0160 | -DMCA | NA | NA | My listing has been removed for over 14 days now. The product was generating $8000/month in sales. So this is lost first of all. Secondly the entire account health of my amazon seller account has been affected by this claim aswell as my inventory management score has significantly decreased because of the 'stranded inventory' due to my product being removed from the platform. All this together with the lost sales and the lost sales ranking will cost me $20.000-35.000 in future revenue. So I would like to have this claim reversed and be compensated for the damages caused. | Closed | The American Bv | none | The Good Ones, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0159 | infringement-DMCA | A non-fiction account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia regularly and casually does violence to the law, State and Federal, upon refusing to hear this citizens twenty year plea for justice. | Had a difficult time uploading book onto Blurbs website although Blurbs promise is to help step by step. They would not. I still didn't catch on. I paid one of Blurbs technical experts to help me upload work. Ok, that is over with. After submitting work to Blurb.com I began to finish up the online publishing contract and ran into another obstacle that should have been very easy to fix. There was no help from Blurb when practically begging them to help me complete the financial process for any interest in buying my book. Blurbs online contract would not let me simply put in my zip code for completion. This small task would not let me go forward or complete sellers information. Not long afterward I began hearing about my manuscripts word for word. A little later an acquaintance told me that my book was out there being publicly displayed. I knew this was true from what I was hearing before this person told me that my book was being circulated. I had not told this person anything about my work and the person quoted the subjects I spoke about in Systemic Racism in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Blurb.com took my work and is benefitting from my creation while blocking me from having any | It's like sabotage. Its infringement. I feel violated. My hard work at writing that was also being embarked upon due to severe job discrimination is now under attack. My attempt at pulling myself out of the poverty the severe job discrimination caused sort of left an impression of no hope in trying; or informing the nation of what the system can do to its citizens without any criminal record. To be betrayed in this way and by companies that pledges to protect creations and inventions is indescribable, loss. | Closed | Donna M Conner | none | Blurb.com | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0158 | infringement | hand drawn scientific illustration of a westslope cutthroat trout (fish) | Thinglink, Inc. is in the content creation and editing software business. In order to advertise and promote its business, and sell account subscriptions, Thinglink, Inc. maintains a website at the URL https://thinglink.com/ (the “Website”). Plaintiff discovered that Defendant, without authorization, reproduced and displayed the Illustrations or their derivatives on the Website. Thinglink assists its account holders in uploading artwork and other content to it's servers, which artwork may then be accessed and used by other ThingLink account holders. ThingLink does not develop or purchase its own copyright content; rather it solicits, encourages, and allows persons or entities (i.e. the “account holders”) to upload digital images and content through ThingLink’s Website to servers under the possession, custody, or control of ThingLink. The uploaded digital images are used by ThingLink to allow access to and use of the digital images by account holders. Account holders may create an account with ThingLink and use ThingLink’s content editing software and content banks to create and distribute their own materials. ThingLink receives revenue from the account subscriptions. Therefore, Thin | As a result of Thinglink, Inc.'s above-described acts of copyright infringement, Mr. Tomelleri has sustained damages including lost licensing revenue in an amount not yet ascertained and profits that should be disgorged to Mr. Tomelleri. In addition to the above damages sustained by Mr. Tomelleri, Thinklink, Inc. is liable to Mr. Tomelleri for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. 501. | Certified | Joseph R Tomelleri | Evans & Dixon | Thinglink, Inc. | Order for Additional 14 Days to Pay Second Filing Fee |
| 23-CCB-0157 | infringement | Text and graphics published as a website | Display of infringed work on website: www.kra-wp.com, which website is identical to the website of Claimant Kraton Corporation at www.kraton.com. | Statutory damages | Closed | Kraton Corporation | none | Brian Sartin | Download23-CCB-0157_ Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0156 | infringement | non-fiction accounting for the perpetual infraction of law within the State of Virginia and against the books author | Hacking complaint or IC3 complaint on LIfeRich publishing aka AuthorSolutions Inc., Readers Digest Financial reparations are being sought from Life Rich Publishing, aka, Author Solutions Inc., now an affiliate of Readers Digest for being involved with my apartment managers in pursuing me for over twenty years to every apartment rented succeeding at illegal searches and seizures of my papers, phones, and electronics ordered by an official concealing misconduct right up under the law. Around November 2021 I was sent an email from readers digest on behalf of LifeRich Publishing the book publishers for Readers Digest. The email stated: 'I have the book and after editing the book send it to LifeRich Publishing and they will publish book for me.' I was surprised and quite concerned because I 've been damaged before but I let the email pass because I didn't tell anyone, not anyone this time about my writing this book. Not long afterwards I began hearing too many words, sentences and subjects that is included in my book, Systemic Racism in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and I knew that Life Rich Publishing and Readers Digest had illegally downloaded a copy of my unedited manuscript as | Over a decade ago Author Solutions Inc was taken to Richmond VA Federal Court for damaging my first book. Author Solutions worked with Lionsgate Production Company that made a movie from my first book, case 404-cv-117. After learning about all this, Author Solutions Inc. then had the nerve to continue selling my book after a request was made in writing to cancel the contract and stop selling my work because of that TV movie. I thought it was over but six years after placing in writing to Author Solutions to stop selling work I found my work, 404-cv-117 at Barnes and Noble. Authors Solutions, now Life Rich Publishing, damaged me bad therefore I proceeded to take them to the US District Court for Richmond, Virginia, case: 08-10216 involving intellectual property crime. It could easily be determined that the judge was biased and on the money side, dismissing case against Author Solutions. This was the third obvious attack on my work, again, after that poor decision given by the first judge in case 404-cv-117. Forward fast to year, 2022 and Author Solutions, aka, Life Rich Publishings is at it again. From events that followed after requesting that IC3-a division of the Department | Closed | Donna M Conner | none | Life Rich Publishings, aka, Author Solutions Inc, | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0155 | infringement | The name Unchained, as it pertains to wrestling events | ProSouth Wrestling promoted a professional wrestling event online to be performed live and distributed online using the name Unchained. | They are using my work to promote their own business and I'm asking they stop. | Closed | Georgia Independent Professional Wrestling | none | ProSouth Wrestling | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0154 | infringement | Photo of a man sitting on a sidewalk at night | Respondent copied the claimant's photo and posted the photo on its website | The quality of the infringing picture is not the same as the original thus reputation of the author is an issue as the quality of the work is not preserved. In addition to loss licensing revenue as the infringement is ongoing. | Closed | Juan F. Garrido Sanchez Toledo | The Brickell IP Group, PLLC | The Health Mania Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0153 | infringement | Residential Building | The original Custom Achitectural design was created by Silverline Custom Homes in April 2021. The design was submitted to the city of Dallas in obtaining a building permit for property address: 934 Duluth St, Dallas TX 75212 Building Permit was issued by the city on 06/16/2021 for the original architectural design. A residential building was constructed, and completed in Dec 2022 at 934 Duluth St, Dallas TX 75212 with the original architectural design. Townsville Realty LLC reproduced design without written approval from Silverline Custom Homes. Reproduction of the original design was submitted to the Dallas permit office. Building permit was issued by the city of Dallas on 08/22/2022 with submitted copies of the illegal reproduction of the original design. Townsville Realty LLC is currently constructing a building with the infringed design at the property located at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223. | Reproduction of the copyrighted work resulted in the loss of revenue from the home design service and the construction of the building. Silverline Custom home is seeking relief in the amount of $30,000.00 in statutory damages. In order to protect some of the unique features of the original building at 934 Duluth St, Dallas TX 75212 , Silverline Custom home is seeking relief to have respondent(s) modify the ongoing new construction at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 Requesting below modifications to the structure at: 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 1) Remove/modify the wrap around balcony on the 2nd floor deck 2) Remove/modify the pop out closet on the second floor bedroom4 2) Remove the roof overhang in bedroom 2 and the Loft area | Certified | Silverline Custom Homes, a protected series of J.A. Holdings and Development, LLC | none | Townsville Realty LLC | Proof of Service |
| 23-CCB-0152 | infringement | Residential Architectural Design | The original Custom Floor plan design was created by Silverline Custom Homes in April 2021. The design was submitted to the city of Dallas in obtaining a building permit for client of Silverline Custom Home. Building Permit was issued by the city on 06/16/2021 for the original architectural design. Townsville Realty LLC reproduced design without written approval from Silverline Custom Homes. A building permit was obtained at the Dallas permit office with the infringed design. Building permit was issued by the city of Dallas on 08/22/2022 with submitted copies of the illegal reproduced design. Townsville Realty LLC is currently building a home with the infringed design at the property located at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223. | Reproduction of the copyrighted work resulted in the loss of revenue from the home design service and the construction of the building. Silverline Custom home is seeking statutory damages in the amount of $30,000.00 | Certified | Silverline Custom Homes, a protected series of J.A. Holdings and Development, LLC | none | Townsville Realty LLC | Proof of Service |
| 23-CCB-0151 | infringement | Residential Building | Original custom home design was completed by Silverline Custom Homes in April 2021. Design was submitted to the Dallas permit office for the purpose of obtaining a building permit for a new home construction at 934 Duluth St, Dallas TX 75212. Building permit was issued by the City on 06/16/2021 for the construction of the home located at 934 Duluth St, Dallas TX 75212. Home was built and completed in December 2022. Respondent reproduced design without written approval from Silverline Custom Homes. The infringed copyrighted work was submitted to the city, and building permit was issued by the city on 08/22/2022 with the illegal reproduced design. Respondent has commence construction using the reproduced copyrighted work at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223. | Reproduction of the copyrighted work resulted in the loss of revenue from the home design service and the construction of the building. Silverline Custom home is seeking relief in the amount of $30,000.00 in statutory damages. in order to protect some of the unique home design features, Silverline Custom home is seeking below modification or revision of the ongoing new construction at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 Seeking Below Modification (Reliefs): -------------------------------------------------- 1. Remove/modify the wrap around balcony on the 2nd floor open deck of the structure at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 2. Remove/modify the pop out closet on the second floor bedroom 4 of the builing structure at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 3. Remove the roof overhang in bedroom 2 and the Loft area of the building Structure at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223. | Closed | J.A. Holdings & Development LLC, Dba Silverline Custom Homes | none | Townsville Realty LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0150 | infringement | Children's Short Story about a 5 year-old girl who becomes friends with a hummingbird. Involves parental, singing and bullying. | There are a lot of similarities (scenes) in the movie, "Turning Red," like my book but in different order with different children's characters. Initially on paper and in my private residence I said that I would make the little girl Lily change into a hummingbird, then I changed my mind and did not include it in my book. In the movie, "Turning Red," they make the young girl turn into a red panda. I am being watched against my will and robbed of my ideas that I put on paper and say aloud. Plus, in the movie, the red panda is doing things that I do in my residence. | I can tell you this, I have been a victim of theft of my work for over 30 years. I have other issues that I can tell you about if needed but they are different companies. This has caused me emotional distress, fearfulness because I was sexually assaulted in the past over some of my work that was taken against my will. My life was threatened and I feel that it still is based on persons consistantly using my works without me having any contracts with them or knowledge of exactly who is behind this. The police has not helped me and this has just been an ongoing thing. It seems that everyone is against me and is for stealing from me. All of the experiences that I just named have made this present infringement very difficult for me. Often, entertainment changes their dates to say that they have done the work beforehand and it is not true. Ghostwriters are hired to do the work. The persons credited often times do not actually do the work, they hire others. However, with my case, I never agreed to be a ghost writer or volunteer writer. I have seen advertisements for both online but I never would submit to such a thing being that I want to make it for myself. My work that I do is no | Closed | April Hamlin | none | Pixar | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0149 | infringement | Five AM in Amsterdam, words and music by Michelle Shocked | On April 5, 2023 I was contact by an representative, Lea Thalmard, from a French publisher, Le bruit du monde. 1. Dear Michelle, I am a junior editor at a small publishing house in Marseille, France, called Le bruit du monde (which roughly translates as "the sounds of the world"). We are going to publish a translation into French of the memoir/autobiographical essay of a young Norwegian writer and researcher, Jan Grue. In his memoir, he deals with the issue of being a disabled man in a world that isn't meant for him to fit in, and also tells us about how he eventually came to terms with his extra-ordinary being-in-the-world, and learned to accept it. His voice is strong and we wanted to make it heard to French readers. In his book, he reminisces on how living in Amsterdam as an exchange student was both a wonderful and trying experience : the cobblestone streets, the canals, the city itself weren't meant to welcome a person in a wheelchair, and yet he came to love it and its atmosphere. He specifically remembers listening to your song again and again, "5 am in Amsterdam". He quotes 5 lines of the song in his book, and we were wondering if we could quote those lines too in our | I contacted Wendy Szymanski on April 18, 2023 and she replied on April 20, 2023. I proposed a phone discussion and we set up a meeting time to speak at 4:30pm on Monday April 24, 2023. However, she canceled the appointment. Given the publishers conduct thus far, I am concerned that they disdain my exclusive copyrights and disregard this infringement as trifling or de minimis, and although I remain hopeful that a mutually satisfactory settlement can be achieved, I assert that this claim causes serious harm to my licensing rights and so seek full statutory relief. | Certified | Michelle Shocked | none | MacMillan Publishers | Scheduling Order |
| 23-CCB-0148 | infringement | Other People, words and music by Michelle Shocked | Chen, while employed by Google, uploaded a bootleg recording of my performance of my encore at Yoshi's in San Francisco on March 17, 2013, to her YouTube account, https://www.youtube.com/carolcheny. Her video was titled, "FULL CLIP: Michelle Shocked Homophobic Rant at Yoshi’s San Francisco" and was amplified, distributed to YouTube channels such as The Young Turks and David Pakman, within hours. I only discovered the identity of Carol Chen via LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/carolzchen and https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhchen in October 2022. The infringement includes my works Wanted Man and Other People, as well as my live performance with spoken word and performance, which I have registered as "Bootleg This: Truth Vs. Reality. Chen was the subject of a Case Study by Laurie Honda for danah boyd's Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, published April 4, 2016, “It Was A Matter of Life and Death”: A YouTube Engineer’s Decision to Alter Data in the ‘It Gets Better Project’ https://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/case-study-it-was-a-matter-of-life-and-death-a-youtube-engineers-decision-to-alter-data-in-the-it-gets-better-project/ In this case study, a YouTube engineer [Chen] con | Following the upload of the bootleg recording on Chen's YouTube channel I was 'cancelled', and all tour dates that were booked prior to this were cancelled, and I have been unable to book concert tours since 2013, despite booking and performing on 80+ tour dates in each of the preceeding five years. The losses in my income far exceed the limits of the $30,000 cap for damages here. | Closed | Michelle Shocked | none | Carol H Chen | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0147 | infringement-DMCA | Set of Wicked Movie | Twitter account has uploaded copies of images and video (this is for video) | The video is a worldwide exclusive and is being represented by splash news only and is on my YouTube channel. | Closed | Terry Harris Photography | none | Thomas Dobson | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0146 | infringement | Group registration of published photographs | Claimant Florian Sommet is a commercial photographer who shoots ads for major brands. Claimaint is the creator and sole rights holder to an original cosmetic photograph. Respondent is the owner and operator of the Instagram @laserfacialmiami which is a social media page that promotes and advertises the Respondent’s spa business. On or about January 2, 2021 Claimant discovered his photograph being displayed on Respondent's Instagram page in two separate postings, in promotion of its services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Florian Sommet | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Lasers & Facials Med Spa | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0145 | infringement | Photograph of a woman looking in a bathroom mirror while brushing her teeth | The Image was used without authorization or license on a publicly front facing website with advertising. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. The Infringer continues to display the image even after notification. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | The Times of Birmingham Inc / Birminghamtimes.com | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0144 | infringement | wga numbers is 2190893,2078867,2044360,2044358 | This is copyright infringement, I submitted my original work to Raamla Mohamad boss Shonda Rhimes 3-18-22. Its a program she has to help writers which is Shondland producers Inclusion program. Hr contacted my old telephone number and somebody from their team tried to reach out, I have the pdf documents to this. I attached my script where it say resume on her website. Someone from their team by name of Morgan also stated how they know its not their script. I had no contract in place with Raamla Mohamed or her boss. On copyright.gov she has no copyright. 1. The respondent work is substantially similar to original elements of my work. I attached wga copyright as well as evidence. 2. The respondent used one of my exclusive rights of work in a tv show. 3.The respondent had access to my work, especially if someone from their team tried to contact me. Pdfs available 4. I own a valid copyright and respondent doesnt't Similarities that reasonable doubt . A black women lawyer that loves criminals . The lawyer is in a relationship with a inmate . The lawyer is being stalked by the inmate that eventually gets out of jail & is in love with her . She's a defense attorney. . She t | .The harm suffered and the relief I'm seeking is loss of income& sales by filing out application with her boss . Not given my imdb credit .Not able to come out with a tv show or movie without editing my script . My logine, concept, and actual charcters were stolen, see wga copyrights, and copyright.gov | Closed | akiya finley | none | Raamla A Mohamed | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0143 | infringement | None given | Surf Bowl appeared on Respondent's website in a black and white collage and on a masking graphic for an in-home basement bowling alley that aired on HGTV’s Rock The Block, Season 2, Episode 4 Rock the Basements on March 30, 2021. Ball and Pins appeared on Respondent’s website in both black and white and color collages, and on a masking graphic for an in-home basement bowling alley that aired on HGTV’s Rock The Block, Season 2, Episode 4 Rock the Basements on March 30, 2021. Space Age Bowl appeared on Respondent’s website in both black and white and color collages, and on a masking graphic for an in-home basement bowling alley that aired on HGTV’s Rock The Block, Season 2, Episode 4 Rock the Basements on March 30, 2021. Bedrock Bowl appeared on Respondent’s website in a black and white collage. In addition to copying the images, Respondent altered them or had them altered. In particular, all four items were converted from color to black and white and cropped for the collage on Respondent’s website, and Respondent overlayed its watermark on the collage containing all four of Claimant's works. Items 2 and 3 were again cropped for the color collage on Respondent's websit | Claimant seeks monetary damages based on lost profits from licensing her works and/or from the lack of credit she received in connection with the public uses of her works, as well as disgorgement of Respondent's profits. Claimant further seeks injunctive relief and attorneys' fees as may be appropriate. | Certified | Stefanie Poteet | Workplace Legal, APLC | US Bowling Corporation | Claim Response |
| 23-CCB-0142 | infringement | Magnetic numbers, letters, designs that go on the garage door. | Respondent has copied magnetic numbers, letters and designs for sell on their Etsy page. | Loss of sales due to the respondents copying and selling of products. | No claim certified, no orders to amend | Adrienne Reisinger | none | Danielle N Smith | The Board orders that the proceeding be held in abeyance, meaning all proceedings are placed on hold, pursuant to § 221.1(b) pending the outcome of the application for registration of copyright in the work at issue in the proceeding. The Board grants the claimant permission to request an expedited registration via eCCB if the claimant so desires. For more information, refer to the Expedited Registration Chapter of the CCB Handbook at https://ccb.gov/handbook/Expedited-Registration.pdf |
| 23-CCB-0141 | infringement | HOT DOG ON SKIS | Hot dogger sticker was given to a customer of Anchorage Brewing co. customer took the sticker to Chris Bennett to proceeded to copy the work record video of him doing so and display it on his instagram account. https://www.instagram.com/chris.bennett.tattoos/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgYBfQIJNIP/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D | loss of revenue from this use of my design potential future loss of revenue for others seeking this tattoo all tags pointing to Chris Bennet on instagram and not referencing or crediting me and my business for creation. (brandiiiak & itsyogirlb01 potential customers "next matching tattoo?" comments on instagram) 29 people liked 2 comments and 3 shares on other pages. (potentially more) statutory damages | Closed | bayley barton | none | Chris Bennett | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0140 | infringement | Nonfiction Art History/Biography | This infringement has occurred on two separate occasions, with each case producing two softbound and one ebook, per incident. The counterfeiters used my book to subsequently produce SIX separate works, which constitute SIX separate violations. In that the pirates reused all of my photographs without permission each of those SHOLD count as repeated violations. Altogether, the pirates created 3 books from my original work, "Lee Lawrie's Prairie Deco: History in Stone at the Nebraska State Capitol, 3rd Edition," I published in September 2011. The counterfeits, two softbound books and one eBook, are titled, o (ASIN:B094JPXZRW) - Title: Nebraska State Capitol: The Work Of Lee Lawrie: Nebraska Monuments by Valladares, Beatriz (the ebook) o (ASIN:B094LG98Z6) - Title: Nebraska State Capitol: The Work Of Lee Lawrie: Norfolk Nebraska Sculptures by Godnick, Bertha, ISBN 978502005395 (softbound) o (ASIN:B094L74P19) - Title: Nebraska State Capitol History: Lee Lawrie's Prairie Deco: Lee Lawrie Sculptor by Ashbrook, Jeremiah, ISBN 9798502016858 (softbound) A staffer at Bowker, to whom I provided this ISBN to, stated that this number was the property of Amazon, who (lik | I purchased copies of each of these pirates of my work. I inquired of Amazon who created it, and who was ultimately paid for my purchase, but Amazon has refused to provide either the details of the infringer's name, address, number of copies sold, and so on. It was on sale from May 10-2010 until at least September 15, 2021. This action occurred before I registered the copyright, so I understand my rights may be limited or unavailable, however, again AFTER I registered it, Amazon sold additional copies in two books that were infringements. These will be document in additional claims. Amazon sold the books worldwide on their platforms in UK, Singapore, Dubai and other nations, but never reported any of these sales to me, or whether any occurred. I reported this crime to the FBI on September 29, 2021, and they declined to prosecute it. I want to seek the maximum penalty available under statute. In the case of violations under 17 USC 506 and 18 USC 2139, I SHOULD be entitled to statutory damages as outlined in the statute, but specifically for the SECOND instance, AFTER I had already registered my copyright | Closed | Gregory P Harm, MA | none | John Doe | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0139 | infringement-DMCA | This is the cover art for my song entitled, "To Men Who Broke Her Heart". | Gemtracks is a business that leases and/or sells beats online. From my research, they lure customers in by putting up the work of unsuspecting yet popular musical artists (like myself), and the beats, tempos and art covers of our works, without our permissions. The owner of this company, Jesse Neo, says that he's using an API and does not have to take "my" art down. My legal and birthname, as well as the art cover and Spotify link are all listed on his site and he's refusing to remove it. It is clearly copyright infringement and it is unethical. | Jesse Neo and Gemtracks.com are taking advantage of smaller artists like myself, who may not have the financial means to legally sue for copyright infringment, by posting my art and music up on his/their website to profit from the selling of his beats and/or the "clout" my music may bring his site. It is a way to "appear" legit. However, I am not financially benefiting from him using my works on his site. Underneath my art cover and song info he's displaying, he is showing an internal ad for customers/viewers to purchase beats for $149 USD. I feel cheated as an independent artist, as the music industry does not pay me (us) much money as it is, along with all the gate keeping that goes on to prevent us from reaching higher in the industry. Jesse Neo adds to that frustration via this exploitation of my copywritten art. The fact that he is refusing to take the page down, and even counter-disputing my Google Claims request as well, really hurts me psychologically. He is using my legal name (Ricardo Redd) and my musical brand that I've worked so hard to build, and exploiting it for profit. Relief: I would like this page he has on Gemtracks taken down and I would like to receive | Closed | Ricardo Redd | none | Gemtracks | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0138 | infringement | Hand drawn, realism illustration of a Walleye | Defendant is in the business of screen printing and selling apparel and accessories. In order to advertise and promote its business, and sell merchandise, Defendant maintains a website at the URL https://www.mjdistributing.com/. The illustrations used on the website were placed on the merchandise being sold. Specifically, Defendant used the illustration or its derivatives to sell t-shirts, hoodies, and other items of apparel. Defendant derived revenue from the merchandise sold on the website with the infringing use of the illustrations. | Plaintiff has sustained damages including lost licensing revenue in an amount not yet ascertained and profits that should be disgorged to Plaintiff. Under 17 U.S.C. § 502, grant temporary and final injunctions on such terms as it deems reasonable to prevent or restrain infringement of Plaintiff’s copyright. Under 17 U.S.C. § 503, order the impounding and ultimately destruction, on such terms as it may deem reasonable, of any records or material involved in Defendant’s copyright infringement. Under 17 U.S.C. § 504, award Plaintiff’s actual damages and any additional profits of Defendant, or, if Plaintiff so elects before judgment is entered, award statutory damages. Awarding Plaintiff all available pre-judgment and post-judgment interest on all amounts of any judgment. Grant to Plaintiff such further relief as may be equitable and proper. | Certified | Joseph R. Tomelleri | Evans & Dixon | M & J Distributing, Inc. | The Pre-Discovery Conference previously scheduled for December 19, 2023, at 1:00pm EST has been rescheduled to 2:30pm EST on January 8, 2023 because neither respondent nor its attorney appeared at the conference. If the respondent fails to appear again, the Board may begin default proceedings. More information is available in the Missed Deadlines chapter of the CCB Handbook. https://ccb.gov/handbook/Missed-Deadlines.pdf. Any questions should be directed to[email protected]. |
| 23-CCB-0137 | infringement | Explainer video | Say It Visually, Inc. d/b/a Fast Forward Stories (“FFS”) is the creator and owner of the copyrights (attached) in various “explainer” videos that it produces and licenses to its clients. Clients pay initial setup fees plus monthly subscription fees for access to sets of FFS videos, which FFS hosts for its subscribers on a commercial video-hosting platform (Wistia.com). These licensed clients publicly display and post their set of videos, typically on their public website, in order to educate and engage their customers. With over 500 active clients, each with a video collection ranging from 2 to 163 different FFS videos, there are tens of thousands of public access points to stream FFS videos. Examples include: https://perriottpartners.com/videos/ https://www.titleonecorp.com/video-library https://www.prescottfinehomes.net/for-sellers/ Selected additional examples can be found on the Web at greystonetitle.com, resultstitle.net, expresstitlecs.com, closingexpress.com, arsetitle.com, southridgeabstract.com, and http://www.micasatitle.com/how-it-works.php FFS protects its customers, IP and business by providing and requiring video hosting; visitors to a licensed client' | Fast Forward Stories' business has been harmed by respondent's infringement in lost revenue, reduced market and substantially increased risk of additional infringement(s). Respondent could have availed themselves of the content by licensing directly from FFS — in fact, the CMI statement on each video includes the Internet URL where legal licensing could have been arranged. By electing to evade protections, copy, upload, display and make the work available for public performance, respondent deprived FFS of the modest fees respondent would have paid to license the content legally. For the span of time these illegal copies have been publicly available, FFS licensing and hosting fees for respondent based on the date of the first infringing upload would have ranged from $4,012 to $27,132, depending on the set of videos selected and terms arranged. The public display and ease of free public performance enabled by respondent's illegal posting of the videos on the dominant public video service (YouTube) also harmed FFS by reducing the market for commercial licensing. Other potential licensees have turned down licensing and payment because "they could get the same thing on YouT | Closed | Say It Visually, Inc. | none | B. & T. REAL ESTATE SERVICES, INC. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0136 | infringement | Youtube Live streaming video | I am writing to inform you a copyright infringements by Ravi Telugu Traveller youtube channel for using our copyrighted content without our consent. (Infringement-1) On 04-02-2023: The infringing content can be found in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UlfIFeU-Xk&t=473. The infringing material occurs from 00:07:53 to 00:08:00. We are the rightful owners of the original copyrighted work, which can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXXgkOZ5FE&t=8695. The original material occurs from 02:24:55 to 02:25:02. The infringing content includes a significant portion of our original work, specifically 7 seconds. We would like to point out that the content that was copied does not fall under any exceptions to copyright infringement. Title of the Work: "MUMLOGY LIVE DEBATE |EDUCATION| |ENTERTAINMENT|" at "https://www.youtube.com/@mumlogy" channel Type of Work: YouTube Livestream Author's Name: MUMLOGY Date the Work was created: 01-Dec-2022 (Infringement-2) On 07-07-2022: The infringing content can be found in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAtpsAzZlaM&t=240. The infringing material occurs from 0:04:00 | (Infringement-1) On 04-02-2023: The unauthorised use of our copyrighted content has negatively impacted the market for our original work, as it has caused a decrease in traffic and revenue for our channel. The unauthorised use of our content has had a negative impact. It has drastically altered the original intention and purpose of our work, and has resulted in a violation of animal rights. Moreover, the channel owner deliberately slandered one of our senior citizen participants, causing them significant harm and distress. The misuse of our content serves a different purpose than our original work and is being utilised in a way that was never intended. (Infringement-2) On 07-07-2022: The unauthorized use of our copyrighted content has negatively impacted the market for our original work, as it has caused a decrease in traffic and revenue for our channel The unauthorized use of our content has had a negative impact. It has drastically altered the original intention and purpose of our work, and has resulted in defamation of one of my participants who is also a popular youtuber who has come onto my livestream. Moreover, the channel owner deliberately misquoted one of my part | Closed | SUNITHA BALAKRISHNA RONGALI | none | Ravi K Gudla, Mr | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0135 | -DMCA | NA | NA | The market failure for licensing my copyrighted works: for lyric display, mechanical licenses, derivative works, reputational harm, clear chain of title etc. And because this is AI-generated, I will be buried in an avalanche of similar counterclaims and unable to address the demands for relief that I am due. | Closed | Michelle Shocked | none | Jincheng Zhang | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0134 | infringement | Explainer video | Say It Visually, Inc. d/b/a Fast Forward Stories (“FFS”) is the creator and owner of the copyrights (attached) in various “explainer” videos that it produces and licenses to its clients. Clients pay initial setup fees plus monthly subscription fees for access to sets of FFS videos, which FFS hosts for its subscribers on a commercial video-hosting platform (Wistia.com). These licensed clients publicly display and post their set of videos, typically on their public website, in order to educate and engage their customers. With over 500 active clients, each with a video collection ranging from 2 to 163 different FFS videos, there are tens of thousands of public access points to stream FFS videos. Examples include: https://www.titleonecorp.com/video-library https://www.metrotitle.com/title-insurance-videos/ https://tiagotitle.com/video-library/ https://www.metrotitleandescrow.com/title-insurance-videos/ Selected additional examples can be found on the Web at greystonetitle.com, resultstitle.net, expresstitlecs.com, closingexpress.com, arsetitle.com, southridgeabstract.com, astortitle.com, trinitytitletx.com, arktitletexas.com, and rtrtitle.com. FFS protects its custom | Fast Forward Stories' business has been harmed by respondent's infringement in lost revenue, reduced market and substantially increased risk of additional infringement(s). Respondent could have availed themselves of the content by licensing directly from FFS — in fact, the CMI statement on each video includes the Internet URL where legal licensing could have been arranged. By electing to evade protections, copy, upload, display and make the work available for public performance, respondent deprived FFS of the modest fees respondent would have paid to license the content legally. For the span of time these illegal copies have been publicly available, FFS licensing and hosting fees for respondent would have ranged from $5,346 to $21,546, depending on the set of videos selected. The public display and ease of free public performance enabled by respondent's illegal posting of the videos on the dominant public video service (YouTube) also harmed FFS by reducing the market for commercial licensing. Other potential licensees have turned down licensing and payment because "they could get the same thing on YouTube", depriving FFS of the opportunity to recoup its substantial inv | Certified | Say It Visually, Inc. | none | America's Real Estate Brokers, Inc. | copyright certificate |
| 23-CCB-0133 | infringement | Residential Floor Plan Design | The original Custom Floor plan design was created by Silverline Custom Homes in April 2021. The design was submitted to the city of Dallas in obtaining a building permit for client of Silverline Custom Home. Bldg Permit was issued by the city on 06/16/2021 for the construction of the property located at 934 Duluth St, Dallas TX 75212. Townsville Realty LLC reproduced design without written approval from Silverline Custom Homes. A building permit was obtained at the Dallas permit office with the infringed design. Building permit was issued by the city of Dallas on 08/22/2022 with submitted copy of the illegal reproduced design. Townsville Realty LLC is currently building a home with the infringed design at the property located at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223. Respondent was notified of the infridgement In March 2023 and they reached out to settle the issue out of court, but kept ignoring messages and failed to set a time to discuss settlement. | The infringed design has cost Silverline Custom homes is unique edge as a custom home builder, lost in revenue from both the design and construction of the home. Silverline Custom home is seeking a relief of 30,000.00 for the loss of revenue from the infringed work and from the construction of the property at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 Silverline Custom home is also seeking relief to have Townsville Realty LLC modify the ongoing new construction at 605 Parkview Ave, Dallas TX 75223 by at least 50% to protect some of the unique home design features below: Remove/modify the wrap around balcony on the 2nd floor open deck. Remove/modify the double ceiling features in the living room Remove/modify the pop out closet on the second floor bedroom 4 Remove the roof overhang in bedroom 2 and the Loft area | Closed | Silverline Management LLC Dba Silverline Custom Homes | none | Townsville Realty LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0132 | infringement | Photo of fall scene | Post on social media in edited form wishing people “Happy Friday” | None | Closed | Ashland Chiropractic Center | Steptoe & Johnson PLLC | Mike Briner | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0131 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Facebook is going against me and making my name look bad, taking people money and I need justice | Closed | Porscha Brown | none | Order Dismissing Claim | |
| 23-CCB-0130 | infringement | Dark evocative | A label offered a contract. The band w@s going to take it. They reproduced the music and tried to distribute to artist. Artist issues takedown notice via email. The music now is still up for sale. We were recieving plays. We weren’t promoted on the label and the steam we had crashed. | Our plays went from 1000 a day to 15 to now 2-3 plays a day after label. The rumors in our world obviously crashed us. | Closed | Blaise Thompson | none | Rock hand records | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0129 | infringement | Photo of Maryanne Holloman and Bruce Springsteen | The photo in question was taken by me in 1980. I am the owner. The person in the photo was a friend of mine. I uploaded the photo to Find A Grave. Find A Grave does not have a public use policy. They require a request for permission policy. I uploaded the photo on May 11, 2009. I posted on my photo it was not to be used with permission. I neither granted nor received permission for photo use. I found my photo on a YouTube channel. I contacted the person (Rachel Arnold) and requested my photo be removed. She declined. I filed a copyright claim on YouTube and they removed the video. She filed a counter claim. My photo was stolen from the Find A Grave site, which are considered copyrighted by the person who uploads them. YouTube removed the offending video, but due to the counter claim may retract the removal. | I am very upset that my photo is being used without my permission. I want that photo to stay removed! | Closed | Linda M Jiron | none | Rachel Arnold | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0128 | infringement | Anchorage, words and music by Michelle Shocked | •On Sep 2, 2016 I responded to Jeff Clayton's email request for a mechanical license for the physical distribution of my composition "Anchorage." I offered a mechanical license for the limited manufacture of 500 compact discs only, no downloads. •On September 23, 2016 I received a notice of intent from Tim Kosel at Easy Song Licensing (dba Legacy Productions) on behalf of Jeff Clayton to obtain a compulsory mechanical license for making and distributing 1000 compact discs and another notice of intent to obtain a compulsory mechanical license for making and distributing 100 digital downloads. •On Oct 24, 2016 I responded to the notice of intent to obtain a compulsory license for physical and download distribution of my work by email and mail with an unequivocal denial and demand to cease and desist from further distribution. •On Dec 12, 2016 I received a "royalty statement" in the form of a check for $100.10 with a memo "November Royalties 2016" and then on June 8, 2017 I received another check for $1.14 with a memo "May Royalties 2017." I refused to cash it. •No further compulsory mechanical royalty compliance for physical or DPD has been received since that June 8, 2017 "ro | market failure of my intellectual property distribution rights, and devaluation of my intellectual property exclusive derivative work rights for sync licensing. I am seeking full statutory relief | Certified | Michelle Shocked | none | CD Baby | Scheduling Order |
| 23-CCB-0127 | infringement-DMCA | sound recording, lyrical composition | defendants lured me into a recording, production and songwriyting agreement promising to market, promote and enablke me to earn a living from my talents, which all turned out to be false promises and lies... ntellectual property theft, copyright conversion, trade secret violation, breach of contract..i have copy's of contracts and recording agreement | ive suffered major economic harms and as well as reputational harms as a result of dealing with these two individuals.. I have been denied the right to earn a living fomr my talents, personal property, intellectual property due to the acts committed by the defendants.. Copyright Conversion, intellectual property theft, fraudulent concealment, fraudulent inducement, breach of contract, Copyright infringement, misappropriation of intellectual property, indentured servitude, plagiarism and trade secret violation | Closed | Corey Logan | none | GambleHuff Productions | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0126 | -DMCA | NA | NA | I published the "Pashto Dictionary" in 2012 with original content, and the "Qamoos Dictionary" that uses our data was recently published. I have been investing my money and time since 2012 to improve the application. The developer caused us financial damage as I have Google Ads on my application to generate revenue. I reinvest the income generated to improve the app. Since the "Infringed app" published, the number of users using our application decreased which resulted in decreased revenue as well. The developer resides in Afghanistan and knows that no authority can hold them liable financially for using copyright data therefore they have submitted a false counter-notification notice. I want the developer to remove our copyright data from their application. Until that, I request Google to avoid reinstating the application. | Closed | Shaheem Nijat | none | Abdurahman Popal | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0125 | -DMCA | NA | NA | I received a takedown on Etsy, which puts my etsy shop at risk of being shut down. My listing is de-activated for 10 days, preventing sales from occurring. | Closed | Carrie L Elliott | none | Kimberly Congdon | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0124 | infringement-DMCA | Orriginal work of this Author created feelings for Copyright herein.that were transfered and orignally by myself. | Was a child and I transferred All Rights, that of which has affected my freedom as that the Group, The Police, infringed on my work by saying they wrote the song. Man in a suitcase. | Never got paid one cent. To stop the infringement. the payment of royalties never occurred, the contract was with me a minor, I transferred copyright to The Musical group the Police For Publication. | Closed | chad J carriker | none | UMG Recordings, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0123 | infringement | Digital image of a man sitting on a stool playing a guitar. There is a man to his left making a clapping motion. There are two guitars on stands on the right and there is a red curtain behind the guitars and men. | Visit Kitsap Peninsula (VKP) has, in a number of instances, used my copyrighted photographic art on their social media pages and website without my permission and without purchasing these images and the rights to publish them on their social media pages and website. Many times, they never even cited me or my business as the source. VKP maintained this practice from at some point in 2018 through late October 2022. Originally, in March 2021, I discovered VKP was using several of my images on their Instagram page. When an image is uploaded to Instagram, after a week of being uploaded it will display the date of the upload. The earliest dates of the images that VKP uploaded were in 2018. At first, it seemed audacious to see the number of images they were using. I didn't remember giving VKP permission. Given the two "partnerships" VKP initiated with me in 2018 and 2020 (See exhibits titled "Sponsorship that led to VKP creating Kitsap Bites in 2020" and "Partnership if I switch to LLC in 2018"), I checked my past emails sent to VKP just to make certain VKP hadn't received any prior permissions to use my images during those times. I did not find any emails of me giving permission to VK | Relief I am seeking is explained below: 1. Statutory damages and a portion of any profits VKP made off of my Keb' Mo' image. When I originally initiated this complaint, I had misunderstood the law and didn't quite understand I might be eligible for any statutory requirement. However, if the Copyright Claims Board agrees with my complaint, then I would request they consider granting me statutory damages. 2. I am requesting VKP perform an audit of their digital assets and photographs in a manner that reassures me or confirms to me that they do not have any of my images on their servers that they might inadvertently use in the future. I ask because I know they have had edited versions of my images in the past. See my exhibit of an email to the lawyer titled "Email to VKP lawyer on November 11 2022 to check servers for image" that details an image of mine that they edited. Harm suffered is described below: 1. Harm to Transparency in Government Procurement. When applying for lodging tax funds from the City of Bainbridge Island, City of Poulsbo, City of Bremerton, City of Port Orchard, and the Kitsap County governments, it does not appear that VKP ever informed them that they | Closed | Kitsap Media Group, dba Experience Kitsap | none | Visit Kitsap Peninsula | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0122 | infringement-DMCA | LARRY ALONZO HILL TRUST | Property used for profits, online Web sites , bonds and stocks for public user for profits. Without express written consent for author. | I suffered lost of property used for profits , commercial gain and bonds. Relief seeking. Total violation (5) Total cost pre violation $50,000. Totaling $250,000. | Closed | Larry A Hill ; Bey | none | Marcus Dixon | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0121 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | Samien Y Bissessar | none | FEMA TEST ANSWERS, LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0120 | infringement | A fictional character represented as a coyote with a collar with the name Xyk or QuickXyk. | Online publication of "QuickXyk: Ring of Vengeance," a short story and collection of artwork featuring the copyrighted character design of the claimant used without permission. | Harm suffered is loss of control over copyrighted material, ideas, and promotion. Claimant is seeking an order against the respondent to stop all infringing activities, a declaration of ownership of the copyright by the claimant, statutorily provided damages, and reasonable attorney fees. | Closed | Eric O Harms | Solo | David Lillie | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0119 | infringement | Hip Hop Style instrumental track | The instrumentation, specifically the piano and bass lines, are virtually identical to my work titled "Blissful Endings". I have discussed this with many people who agree. I have tried multiple times in 2015 to reach lawyers but they did not want to take the case. One lawyer started working with me and agreed with me, but then said "I have a friend at that label" and then hung up the phone. Time went by, and someone referred me to this site created in 2020 where I can file a claim without a lawyer. | I have extreme psychological trauma since this happened. I recently got divorced, which forced this past trauma to resurface and cause my depression to worsen and severe. Music is one of the many motivators and passions that keeps me going through all this, and this situation is so sour to me that it hurts to continue making music. I also feel extremely wronged, like a small fry that has no say or power as big record labels just take my hard work without any recourse. | Closed | Iosif Mermelshtayn | none | 300 Entertainment(Warner Music Group) | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0118 | infringement | Flexible Mirror Sheet On amazon | Cubix also claim My Q-BICS Trademark. I want to Solve This Problem. I have all Proof About my trademark. | Dear CCB Team I want To Solve problem. Cubix claim My trademark Q-BICS. but its my trademark I have all proof about it. | Closed | Joe Mayer | Resolve Cal I'm Issue | Joe Mayer | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0117 | infringement | YouTube dramatization titled: A discussion with Ms Hussy | Respondent uploaded full video without permission | I am requesting the respondent cease to upload any further copies of the work. | Closed | Bridget Eason | none | Matt Berlinger | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0116 | infringement | Doller general | Bad and very terrible | Destroy | Closed | Virginia Graybill | none | carlene thayer | Order Closing Case |
| 23-CCB-0115 | infringement | An image of a one way sign in front of a blue brick wall producing a shadow in the shape of a crucifix. | Without license or authorization Scripture Union copied, displayed and distributed my image. | Claimant suffered damages in an amount to be determined, including without limitation, lost licensing revenue, royalties and loss of fair market value. At claimant's election, claimant reserves the right to elect statutory damages. Claimant has also incurred costs and lost interest, for which it seeks full recovery. | Closed | Scott Sharick | none | Gail Martin | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0114 | infringement | photographs, text, instruction manual of Paracord Bracelet Kit | The design and text from Pinwheel Crafts Paracord Bracelet Kit Instruction Manual was copied directly and used in Innorock's Paracord Bracelet Kit instruction manual. This has been ongoing infringement abuse since 2020. | This has been on-going infringement abuse since 2020. We are seeking maximum relief allowed. | Closed | Pinwheel Crafts LLC | none | ETERNITY COMMERCE LIMITED | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0113 | infringement-DMCA | Photos of myself | Samuel Boateng has published my work without permission on multiple social media sites for promotion of his platforms or as his content. | Emotional distress. | Closed | Alisa Baron | none | Samuel Boateng | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0112 | infringement | Diagram of sinus anatomy with a deviated septum | www.Analyticsmarketresearch.com is selling research reports for-profit over the Internet using my sinus diagram demonstrating a deviated septum | copyright infringement Statutory copyright damages | Closed | Aesthetic Associates Inc | William Portuese, MD | analyticsmarketresearch.com | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0111 | infringement | Visual arts. Purple octopus underwater holding a yellow gift box, art pallet, and paintbrush in 3 arms with a teal background with bubbles and singed CMC for artist's name | Took my painting without Copyright Release and used for business cards, hundreds of stickers that removed my signature and edited my design and added store name. Also for a store sign 4 foot x 10 foot quantity of 2 and removed my signature and edited my design and added store name. | Financial, no representation of my name on my work, and no compensation for my talent as a local artist in a tourist town with 450,000 tourists at any given time during tourist season. | Closed | Christina M Clements | none | Michelle Smith | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0110 | infringement | Wings with sauce | They stole from me and decided to profit from my photograph by linking its product line, web based store, and sharing it with people on a social media platform. The stolen photograph your client used was shared on facebook on March 26th, 2023. Liked, loved, and otherwise reacted by 886 people, commented on by 553 people, and shared 63 times. | Infringer's profits. Without discovery, I cannot know how much business they obtained from using my photograph. I am seeking $5,000.00 or the applicable limit for this claim, whichever is less. | Closed | Pedro Webber | none | BuzzFeed Media Enterprises, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0109 | infringement | Also utilizing the minor scale and augmented/offscale notes, this track uses orchestral and operatic insturments, and organs | Unauthrotized dertivetives of copyrighted phonograms - many of the songs released on black 17 media are altered samples of these two songs in particular | Monetary Compensation for royalties and accreditation on the works as a producer and co-writer, accreditation on any RIAA certifications where my work is sampled | Closed | Zachary S White | none | Black 17 Media | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0108 | infringement | Youtube Live | Respondent screen recorded my content in its entirety and posted it to their youtube channel without having my explicit consent. | I have experienced a loss of revenue in the form of views on youtube. In addition to emotional pain and suffering as the content has been used in a form of slander. I am seeking the removal of my content from the respondents youtube channel, legal fees associated with the removal in the amount pending the outcome of this case and compensation for the emotional pain and suffering in the amount of $5,000. | Closed | Julia Garcia | none | Lisbeth Zavala | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0107 | infringement | Sound Recordings | Firstly, this artist has taken multiple beats from our production team that are copyrighted. This artist Blasian Doll refuses to pay us or credit us in the appropriate manner. She simply does not own creative control of the beats to any of the songs listed above. Likewise, the song "Missy Elliott" does not credit the original featuring artist that we initially sold the beat too, or lack of credit to our publishing and production team that created the initial beat infringed upon. Both of these works are displayed publicly on Youtube and Instagram. | Loss of revenue and reputation as they have monetized multiple sound records or beats that we have created. Actual damages suffered sought as a result of the infringement and any profits due to the infringer lacking to pay us for these works or properly credit us. Some of these videos have been available online for up to one year. | Closed | Anthony D. Farris | none | Blasian Barbie | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0106 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Ms. Tarens has had rightfully-owned content taken down several times, interfering with her potential business opportunities. This has led to many missed and/or lost opportunities. Ms. Tarens is seeking damages, to the extent permitted by law, for David Hottenstine's conduct in bad faith. | Closed | Elise Tarens | Donahue Fitzgerald LLP | David Hottenstine | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0105 | infringement | Painting of a bass fish | A virtually exact copy of claimant's artwork was reproduced and featured on multiple flyers for multiple fishing tournaments. The flyers constitute an unlawful derivative work and all copies distributed and flyers displayed, constitute acts of infringement. The only distinction between the original and the respondent's use is the "cropping" and/or removal of certain Copyright Management Information, consequently resulting in further cropping of other portions in order to keep the focal point on the subject of the painting. Respondents, and each of them, were directly involved in the reproduction, distribution, display, adaptation, and/or creation of a derivative work, using Claimant's artwork. Access to the artwork is established by the striking similarity/identicality between the artwork and the bass fish in the flyers, precluding any possibility of independent creation. Despite three separate notices to respondents, respondents continue to display copies of the flyers bearing an exact copy of claimant's artwork. | Claimant has suffered damages in an amount yet to be determined, including without limitation, lost licensing revenue, royalties, loss in fair market value. Claimant also seeks and direct or indirect profits Respondents realized as a result of their acts of infringement. At claimant's election, claimant reserves the right to elect statutory damages. Claimant has also incurred costs and attorneys' fees, for which it seeks full recovery. | Closed | Jon Q Wright | Axenfeld Law Group, LLC | Thomas Hartshorn | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0104 | infringement | None given | An exact copy of claimant's artwork was reproduced and featured on multiple flyers for multiple fishing tournaments. The flyers constitute an unlawful derivative work and all copies distributed and flyers displayed, constitute acts of infringement. Respondents, and each of them, were directly involved in the reproduction, distribution, display, adaptation, and/or creation of a derivative work, using Claimant's artwork. Access to the artwork is established by the striking similarity/identicality between the artwork and the bass fish in the flyers, precluding any possibility of independent creation. Despite three separate notices to respondents, respondents continue to display copies of the flyers bearing an exact copy of claimant's artwork. | Claimant has suffered damages in an amount yet to be determined, including without limitation, lost licensing revenue, royalties, loss in fair market value. Claimant also seeks and direct or indirect profits Respondents realized as a result of their acts of infringement. At claimant's election, claimant reserves the right to elect statutory damages. Claimant has also incurred costs and attorneys' fees, for which it seeks full recovery. | Certified | Jon Q Wright | Axenfeld Law Group, LLC | Fishing For Hip Hop LLC | Second Default Notice |
| 23-CCB-0103 | infringement | The work is a video clip of myself and another person riding in a vehicle with dialog. | The video is displayed, unedited, on the YouTube channel, Lycan Snark, owned by Jamie Stone. He is requesting donations within the video with my work. He has received a letter demanding the removal of my work from his channel and explaining the use of my work costs $30,000 and 50% of any profits made on the channel with my work. | The man is using my work without my consent. I has received a letter from me demanding he remove the work. I have lost the fees associated with utilizing my work which is $30,000 per upload and 50% of the profits made on the channels with my work. | Closed | Christy Castro | none | Jamie Sone | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0102 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption/docket | Not available | See caption/docket | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0101 | 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® 248: Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on March 7, 2020 (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 El Pueblo Mex #2, Inc., Bashar Y. Ballo, and Yasir Y. Ballo (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as El Pueblo Mexican Food located at 2673 Via De La Valle, Suite C, Del Mar, CA 92014 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Bashar Y. Ballo and Yasir Y. Ballo are indivi | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | El Pueblo Mex #2, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0100 | 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® 248: Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on March 7, 2020 (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 Roxie’s Catering LLC, Roxie L. Hensley, William G. Hensley, and William H. Hensley (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Roxie’s on Grand located at 221 E. Grand Avenue, Laramie, WY 82070 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Roxie L. Hensley, William G. Hensley, | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Roxie's Catering LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0099 | infringement | Tiktok Live | Respondent screen recorded my content in its entirety and posted it to their youtube channel without having my explicit consent. | I have experienced a loss of revenue in the form of views on youtube. In addition to emotional pain and suffering as the content has been used in a form of slander. I am seeking the removal of my content from the respondents youtube channel, legal fees associated with the removal in the amount pending the outcome of this case and compensation for the emotional pain and suffering in the amount of $5,000. | Closed | Julia J Garcia | none | Teresa Smith Gomez | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0098 | infringement | This is a 4 second clip of me talking/ performing | He has uploaded my copyrighted work in its entire format, unaltered. He has used it for part of his intro on his videos which he collects money for. | I have notified the respondent through the YouTube complaint process and I've tried to serve him with written notification to remove my copyrighted work. I have suffered the loss of recognition for my work, as well as the fee I charge for using my work. I charge $30,000 per upload and 50% of the profits made on the channel using my work. I am seeking relief of $30,000 statutory relief. | Closed | Cole Cortner | none | Jamie Stone | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0097 | -DMCA | NA | NA | As a self-employed person - journalist and analyst on a freelance, my articles are my only source of income, and the specialty and uniqueness of my work help me to support myself. So, the use of my intellectual property (my articles) without my permission deprives me of my means of livelihood. Based on that, I kindly ask you to oblige the resource moshennik.eu and online service provider Google.com to remove my articles from the website moshennik.eu and Google search results. | Closed | Nontobeko Lucas | none | Viktor Dobroserdov | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0096 | infringement | Moroccan Fan asks Ancelotti for chewing gum, a video made by our client which could be seen here: https://videohat.io/item/2191 | Reuploading the content without our permission of the creator's permission. | Hi, I hope all is well with you. We are a video licensing agency, we license our clients content to networks and video marketing websites. The respondents had uploaded the content without any permission of us or the creator of the video. We reached out to them to clear a license to use the video but they refused. This caused us the loss of 500USD per license per URL (Total: 2000USD). Given the fact that the respondents is a renowned network, who is very aware of the copyright laws and licensing rules, their copyright team did not cooperate when we reached out to them. Neither their PR team. They had so many choices before violating our copyright, they could have just texted our client reaching for his permission (other users have done that) or they could have reached out to us to pay the licensing fees. Or at least they should have accepted the licensing offers we submitted to them. But they insisted on violating our rights and refused to license the content. The question is: if we or one of our clients has uploaded a sports event owned by ESPN, would it be ok? Of Course not. Same should apply to ESPN distributing our content without permission. We are asking for a | Closed | VideoHat LLC | none | ESPN | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0095 | infringement | Moroccan Fan asks Ancelotti for chewing gum, a video made by our client which could be seen here: https://videohat.io/item/2191 | Reuploading the content without our permission of the creator's permission. | Hi, I hope all is well with you. We are a video licensing agency, we license our clients content to networks and video marketing websites. The respondents had uploaded the content without any permission of us or the creator of the video. We reached out to them to clear a license to use the video but they refused. This caused us the loss of 500USD per license per URL (Total: 1000USD). Given the fact that the respondents is a renowned network, who is very aware of the copyright laws and licensing rules, their copyright team did not cooperate when we reached out to them. They had so many choices before violating our copyright, they could have just texted our client reaching for his permission (other users have done that) or they could have reached out to us to pay the licensing fees. Or at least they should have accepted the licensing offers we submitted to them. But they insisted on violating our rights and refused to license the content. The question is: if we or one of our clients has uploaded a sports event owned by BeinMedia Group, would it be ok? Of Course not. Same should apply to BeinMedia Group distributing our content without permission. We are asking for a reli | Certified | VideoHat LLC | none | beIN SPORTS Americas | Order to Show Cause |
| 23-CCB-0094 | infringement | My Dancing Tap Shoes e-book, coloring book, color hardback, color paperback. I sent a hardback copy to the Library of Congress. | I was looking for something on-line and saw that my daughter's and my property was being sold on many sites when I didn't sign up for expanded distribution or ever gave any third parties permission to sell them or had not ever given them our files. That was @ June 2021 when I found out about all these sellers of Our property. Our files were up-loaded print ready files to Create Space printers @2016 now Kindle Direct Publishing. Ingram Spark published her hardback because Create Space of Amazon was not doing hard backs in 2016. I wanted to get my Will in place and get ownership signed over to my daughter Chesley. I bought my own publishing package from Mike Motz.com and Will makes books @gmail.com did our e-book files. Only two businesses had access to my daughter and my files. This claim is against Ingram Spark too. They are now called Ingram content group. I talked to Jean Nicholson and a Stacey Shamrock, etc. | We have lost income because I can't ever remember her getting royalities. I ordered a box of books in 2016 and I didn't get royalties for them. I don't know where my daughter's royalties are going. I lost money getting a product ready for sale. The stress of others stealing your property and not knowing would we get our books back so they will be our legacy for other generation's to enjoy. I found eight ASINs that pop up when I do a Google search and many ISBNs. The ISBN number I paid for that my bookmaker gave me did not get put on any of our books. So I am wondering are they legitimate and the one on my hardback that I sent in to the Library of Congress. I found out when I filled out an infringement form the computer generated message said Amazon did not have a product with this ASIN, B015GDR6ZC. | Closed | Hollis L Nelson, Ms | none | Kindle Direct Publishers of Amazon and Ingram contentIgram content had access to my print ready filesand gram content group | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0093 | infringement-DMCA | Selfie of Max Sebrechts, shown with his torso naked | The selfie picture of Max Sebrechts was wrongfully used and mixed up with false allegations of rigging of the Miss USA pageant, held back on October 3rd in Reno, NV. This post was published by Brooke Kato, copied from Daily Mail, who are also being sued for copyright infringement and the public use of a picture with commercial gain. Any public online post using this picture must immediately be removed to avoid any further harm. | Max Sebrechts was forced to step down as Vice President because of false allegations of rigging after the Oct 3rd Miss USA pageant and the mixed-up articles published by DailyMail.com ("DMG Media") on October 17th 2022. The US-based and US-resident reporter "Ben Ashford", illegally used the "Selfie of Max Sebrechts", which had no place in the article and which has already been proven to be irrelevant in the alleged rigging claims. These have been proven negative altogether in the meantime. It was a picture which dated back from January 16th 2018. The picture was used to do nothing but harm Max Sebrechts and his family. Also, Max Sebrechts is not separated from his wife, as the article suggests. The article is still illegally published as of Feb 28 2023 and has resulted in statutory damages in the amount of $150,000. The picture 'Selfie of Max Sebrechts' shows Max Sebrechts half naked, and was registered with US Copyright Office in accordance with title 17, United States Code. | Closed | Maxime Sebrechts | none | DMG Media | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0092 | infringement | Selfie of Max Sebrechts | The selfie picture of Max Sebrechts was wrongfully used and mixed up with false allegations of rigging of the Miss USA pageant, held back on October 3rd in Reno, NV. This post was published by Brooke Kato, copied from Daily Mail, who are also being sued for copyright infringement and the public use of a picture with commercial gain. Any public online post using this picture must immediately be removed to avoid any further charges. | Max Sebrechts was forced to step down as Vice President because of false allegations of rigging after the Oct 3rd pageant and the mixed-up articles published by New York Post (NYP Holdings, Inc.) on October 20th 2022. The article was copied from another source from Daily Mail. The reporter "Ben Ashford" at Daily Mail, illegally released the Selfie of Max Sebrechts, which had no place in the article. It was a picture back from January 16th 2018. The picture was used to ridicule Max Sebrechts and falsely used to create a public reaction resulting in financial damages occurred in the amount of $150,000. The picture 'Selfie of Max Sebrechts' shows Max Sebrechts half naked, and was registered with US Copyright Office in accordance with title 17, United States Code. | Closed | Maxime Sebrechts | none | NYP Holdings, Inc. attn: Privacy Lead | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0091 | infringement | Article I published on a new paradigm I created for leader development | American University copied the following text, almost in whole, from my copyrighted article: The ALFA program begins with AU faculty working with the agency director to identify 1-3 difficult organizational challenges along with identifying an executive sponsor for each challenge. AU faculty then meet with each executive sponsor to assess the suitability of the problem for the Action Learning process; clarify the roles of the AU faculty, executive sponsor, and the team members; and provide guidance in selecting an effective Action Learning team. The executive sponsor for each challenge then selects Action Learning teams comprising 6-7 people each. Days 1-3:The first three days are classroom-based and focused on developing the leadership competencies necessary to utilize the Action Learning methodology. The class will focus on such skills as active listening, asking powerful questions, reflection, strategic thinking, and problem solving. Each team member is required to select one or more personal leadership developmental goals on which to work during the Action Learning process. Participants are challenged to let go of ingrained perceptions of leadership and problem solving - | I am unable to market my leader development program to Federal agencies in Washington DC because American University uses its weight and imprimatur to market its own program, based almost entirely on my copyrighted article. See pp. 40-41 for the text that American University plagiarized on its web site from my article. As a result of this copyright violation, I (as an independent consultant) have lost a substantial amount of income in the Federal market. I seek $30,000 in relief for my losses. | Closed | Robert Kramer | none | Traevena Byrd | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0090 | infringement | It's a true life story novel based on the experiences of Connie Causey Price, who lives in Myrtle, Beach, SC, it describes her going through an illegal medical procedure that almost kills her, it goes though her hiring an appeals lawyer, who turns out to be a serial killer, it tells her complete life story. | a novel that i published and have the total rights to, was rewritten by another publisher and sold online, thorough various sources. | Genius Books being a larger publisher was able to spread the book across the internet, whereas Ghetto Street Writers Publishing, LLC didn't have the resources to do so, thus it hurt the sales tremendously of our sales, i'm seeking a large montary settlement based solely on books sales. | Closed | Ghetto Street Writers Publishing LLC | none | BOBBIE L Thomas, Jr | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0089 | infringement | deviated septum diagram | My original artwork of a deviated nasal septum diagram was copywritten on August 7, 2014. I recently discovered the same artwork posted on company website called Quizlet.com based in San Francisco. They're using my copyright deviated nasal septum image for commercial purposes | Quizlet.com is using my copywritten image to make a profit | Closed | William Portuese | William Portuese, MD | Quizlet, Inc | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0088 | infringement | MEMES REGARDING HEALTH CARE, GRAPHICS CONTAINING PRODUCT DET,AILS, IMAGES OF TRADEMARK, PHOTOGRAPHY BY IVY ROBINSON | FACEBOOK BEGAN TO DENY ALL MY AD REQUEST, AND WHEN I TRIED TO MAKE CHANGES TO MY BUSINESS PAGE, I WAS REPEATEDLY LOCKED OUT OF MY BUSINESS PAGE. I BEGAN TO ACCESS THE BUSINESS MANAGER PORTAL ON FACEBOOK TO RUN ADS AND EVENTUALLY, I WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO ACCESS THE BUSINESS MANAGER PORTAL. I DO NOT KNOW THE EXACT DATE, BUT WITHIN THE LAST 2 YEARS, A "BUSINESS AGENCY" WAS ADDED TO MY BUSINESS ACCOUNT. THE AGENCY ONLY HAS SERIAL NUMBERS, NO NAME. I DIDNT ADD IT TO MY PROFILE, AND AFTER NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS, I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DELETE IT. HOWEVER, I CAN NOT ACCESS ANY BUSINESS DATA ON MY PAGE, NOR CAN I REMOVE MY BUSINESS FROM THE "BUSINESS AGENCY". TO DATE IVE TRIED TO EMAIL FACEBOOK ONLY TO GET A REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS THAT ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO MY BUSINESS. I'VE ASKED TO HAVE THE BUSINESS AGENCY REMOVED AND EVEN ASKED IF THERE IS A RECORD OF WHEN THIS ENTITY WAS PLACED ON MY PAGE. NO ONE AT FACEBOOK CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION, NOR REMOVE THE AGENCY OR GIVE ME ACCESS TO MY BUSINESS PAGE. OVER THE YEARS, I'VE TRIED TO RUN MY BUSINESS THRU FACEBOOK AND EVERY ATTEMPT ENDS UNSUCCESSFUL. THE PAGES WILL CRASH OR ACCESS WILL BE DENIED. AS A RESULT, I CANT RUN A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS ON FACE | My business page gets no activity, I cant link my Instagram account to my facebook and its a requirement if you plan to have a Instagram business account. All of my ads are rejected, all products that I sell on my website are prohibited on Facebook. My website platform is Shopify and Facebook is the largest Social media ad partner, but it never connects fully. My access is constantly denied. The relief I seek is: release my business page to me, remove the business agency from my business page, reveal when this business agency was placed on my business page and the origin of this business agency, the owner of this business agency and any information Facebook has on this business agency. Remove any and all business pages that has the names: Ivy Robinson, Ivy Sagarius, Ivy Sagarius Robinson, Seanjari Preeti, Seanjari Preeti Womb Healing. I also request the $30,000.00 for loss of sales, loss of business, loss of customer base - I can not communicate from this business page in over a year. | Closed | SEANJARI PREETI WOMB HEALING | none | FACEBOOK META | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0087 | infringement | writers guild registered and copyright.gov The lawyer twin sister has a baby by a inmate and she is a police officer. According to my script the lawyer is stalked by Carlos the drug cartel king. The lawyer is being intimidated to lose certain cases by other learners. | They still have reasonable doubt on hulu even though I told them it was infringement through email. Scenes and logline from script are the same. I would never be able to come out as a screenwriter because so many characteristics and similarities are in reasonable doubt. I gave my script to shonda rhimes raamla mohamed boss and she passed it to raamla. I have evidence I gave it to her boss on her website. | Depression, loss of income, and not being able to come out with a tv show because they took my major concepts in reasonable doubt. When your in the entertainment industry you cant even have no similarities. I have writers guild concept as well. | Closed | akiya finley | none | raamla mohamed | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0086 | infringement | A 1971 motion picture concerning Dracula and the Frankenstein monster released by Independent-International Pictures Corp. and directed by Al Adamson. The film also starred Lon Chaney, J.Carrol Naish, Angelo Rossito, Zandor Vorkov among others. | Mainsail LLC., dba Shoreline Entertainment illegally exhibited a pirated copy of Independent-International Pictures copyrighted motion picture, Dracula vs Frankenstein on their YouTube channel entitled THE STREAM https://www.youtube.com/@The_Stream. The illegal, derivative copy that was exhibited on THE STREAM had replaced Independent-International Pictures Corp's logo with a CHEESY FLIX logo in front of the credits. Shoreline requested we remove the copyright strike from their YouTube channel and we told them we don't negotiate with known infringers since they claim they licensed the film from another party called CHEESY FLICKS, who has been infringing and illegally selling digital downloads of Independent-International's copyrighted motion picture Dracula vs Frankenstein on their website, https://www.cheezymovies.com/product-page/dracula-vs-frankenstein-digital. In turn, SHORELINE / THE STREAM has placed a counter notification to our copyright claim and claim they aired IIP's film by mistake. They failed to do any diligence on the rights to the picture and are now suggesting Independent-International Pictures Corp is trying to extort them. Totally false. Independent-Intern | Independent-International Pictures Corp. has been in the film business for over 50 years and has been actively preserving and distributing its copyrighted motion pictures with legitimate licenses and sales in theaters, television and home entertainment to companies like MGM, Severin Films and Vinegar Syndrome. Independent-International Pictures Corp. does not want its films exploited in digital as it explores a potential sale of its rights and assets or a guaranteed license fee it deems acceptable. Continued infringements like those on YouTube by companies like Shoreline's Stream Channel, and websites like Cheesy Flicks Entertainment aka CHEESY MOVIES, makes it extremely burdensome and nearly impossible for Independent-International Pictures Corp. to maintain and monetize its exclusive rights as it explores a sale or exclusive license of its intellectual properties and assets like Dracula vs Frankenstein. Independent-International Pictures Corp. is seeking injunctive relief against Mainsail LLC., dba Shoreline Entertainment and their Stream service, as well as Cheesy Flicks Entertainment dba as Cheesy Movies from copying, distributing and exhibiting its copyrighted motion pict | Closed | Samuel M. Sherman | none | Mainsail LLC, dba: Shoreline Entertainment | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0085 | infringement | Word cloud in the shape of a seed, based on my research | In a for-profit posting on a for-profit site, Paul Thacker displayed my artwork without my permission. It was not used for a discussion of the work, it was a personal attack, harassment, and misrepresentation of the work. Although it is behind a subscription wall, Substack made me get a subscription to view it in situ. It was definitely on the page, and did not link to the source of the work where full context is possible to examine. A DMCA takedown was initiated as a result. | I want the work to be taken down and not used by the infringer now or in the future. I had to pay a subscription fee to view the work and I want that repaid to me. Infringer's profits from his subscription should also be included in the relief. In addition, reputational damage from the misrepresentation of this work should be included. | Closed | Mary E Mangan | none | Substack DMCA Processing | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0084 | infringement | Music sound recording | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0083 | infringement | Music sound recording | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0082 | infringement | Music sound recording | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0081 | infringement | diagram of a deviated septum | Diagram Image of a deviated nasal septum from original work of my own from my sinus surgery brochure which was stolen from my website, www. Seattle-rhinoplasty.com under copyright protection by the US Library of Congress. | My original sinus anatomy artwork was posted on my website in 2014, and copyright registrations were performed by my Company with the US Library of Congress before posting. This is a sinus diagram demonstrating a deviated nasal septum.Respondent is selling marketing research services for Ear Noe and Throat equipment suppliers to the public with my sinus image located on their website and profiting from their report with my diagram on their website | Closed | William Portuese, MD, Aesthetic Associates, Inc P.S. | none | William Portuese, MD | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0080 | infringement | a song | The infringing individual (Defendant) copied, reproduced, remixed, repurposed, created derivative copies, displayed, and redistributed multiple musical works, sound recordings, and video works owned by the Plaintiff. Defendant uploaded and displayed them on his/her public Youtube channel without permission or authorization from the copyright owner (Plaintiff). Defendant also misrepresented the Plaintiff and Plaintiff's work by pretending to be affiliated with Plaintiff and misusing Plaintiff's brand and image. Defendant infringed on Plaintiff's work no fewer than 42 times. Plaintiff filed copyright claims urging Defendant to remove Defendant's more than 42 infringing works. Defendant then filed dozens of copyright counterclaims, forcing Plaintiff into unwanted litigation. | As a result of Defendant remixing and reposting Plaintiff’s songs online, Plaintiff has suffered harm in the form of lost profits from unauthorized use of Plaintiff’s creative work, damage to Plaintiff’s reputation as an entertainer/musician/entertainment company, and loss of control over the distribution and monetization of Plaintiff’s intellectual property. Plaintiff further claims that Defendant's actions devalued the original songs/music videos and caused harm to Plaintiff’s ability to commercially exploit the work as Plaintiff intended. Plaintiff is seeking injunctive relief prohibiting Defendant from continuing to use Plaintiff’s copyrighted material or image on Youtube and other platforms, as well as keeping the content at issue from being reinstated to YouTube by Youtube. Plaintiff also respectfully requests that the Court award all costs and expenses associated with this action, including reasonable attorney's fees, to be paid by the Defendant. Plaintiff contends that Defendant's actions, including but not limited to copyright infringement, have caused substantial harm and damage to Plaintiff's rights as a copyright owner. Plaintiff further argues that the Defendant's | Closed | Fat Damon Records | none | Albert J Evans | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0079 | -DMCA-noninfringement | NA | NA | Because of Roann Celis-Capistrano's continued harassment, it caused severe distress, embarassment, pain and suffering from being wrongly accused of copyright infringement. My video has been taken down for 2 weeks so my audience was properly informed on how to calculate their retirement. | Closed | Elaine Angelica Linga | none | ROANN CELIS-CAPISTRANO | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0078 | infringement | Sound recording | The company took my song from YouTube (published on February 28, 2020) and made a new song with my vocals and the beat without my permission. | I did not receive any credit because the stolen material contains my sound recordings; therefore, many listeners have been misled into thinking that this company is the original song creator and is earning revenue from my sound recordings. There are many re-uploads on streaming platforms, and I, as an independent artist, am struggling to solve any copyright issues. I have contacted the other party, but they were not open to collaborating and solving this issue. I am seeking maximum relief because I was not asked to give any permission, and so this release was uploaded without my knowledge or consent. I also demand that this song be taken down from all streaming platforms or that my vocals be taken out of the release. I do not give anyone permission to use my vocals. | Closed | Oksana Ivleva | none | Black 17 Media | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0077 | infringement | None given | Theo Hernandez uploaded the songs to his YouTube channel--Amor Música Cristiana--and claims ownership of sound recordings. | Harm suffered: Undue use of sound recordings, partial loss of YouTube royalties, raising doubt of ownership before YouTube Copyright Department. Let it be clear before the CCB that Nancy Ramirez is registered as the sole owner and legal distributor of the content in question, and is represented in the YouTube environment solely by Link Representaciones (also known as Representaciones Internacionales). Relief: Formal certification of Nancy Ramirez as sole owner of master recordings so that YouTube will pull Theo Hernandez's infringing content. | Closed | Nancy C Ramirez Garcia | none | Theo Hernandez | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0076 | 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)] to authorize the public exhibition of (1) the Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 22, 2020 and (2) the Ultimate Fighting Championship® 262: Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on May 15, 2021 (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 Claimant. Respondents The End Zone Bar & Grill, Inc., Sophal Laird, and Doug Thompson (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $30,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violations of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | The End Zone Bar & Grill, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0075 | 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 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 22, 2020 (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 DSF Enterprises, Inc. and Darian S. Fuller (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Gloria’s Bar & Grill located at 8201 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98408 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Darian S. Fuller is an individual who resides in the State of Washington and was a member, manager, officer and/or princ | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Certified | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | DSF Enterprises, Inc. | Order to Submit Written Default Testimony |
| 23-CCB-0074 | 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 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 22, 2020 (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 Juan Eduardo Cuellar and Cintia Ivette Marquez-Chavez (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Micheladas El Patron located at 720 W. 8th Street, Suite G, Stockton, CA 95206 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents are individuals who reside in the State of California and owned and operated the Establishment on t | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Juan E. Cuellar | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0073 | infringement | A recorded song | On October 28, 2022 Rakeem Calief Myer, using the professional name “Roc Marciano” knowingly infringed on my copyrighted music and performed a live performance and created a video of the live performance for distribution on YouTube. Mr. Myer knowingly and intentionally did this, as he was fully aware that the song, he was sampling was written and fully copyrighted by me. The song of mine, that Mr. Myer sampled for his derivative product (Thugs Prayer) is entitled “Trip Thru Hell Part 1”. It is from my 1969 album entitled “Trip Thru Hell” (also released on a 1995 CD by Sundazed records and registered with the pre1972 recordings of the Library of Congress) It can also be located on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/_mLkm1nMJXs The copyright for this song contained on the album was registered May 14, 2019. (attachment) Mr. Meyer committed this infringement knowing full well he had no right to perform this derivative he calls “Thugs Prayer” live and then place a video of the performance on YouTube. This infringement occurred just days after an attorney representing Mr. Myer failed to respond back to me after six months of negotiations failed to enabled Mr. Meyer to obtain a li | I am seeking maximum statutory damages, the costs of this action and such other amounts as the Court deems proper and within the limit authorized by this Court. The respondent’s acts of infringement were not only willful, intentional, and purposeful, but also in complete disregard of and indifference to claimants’ rights. Accordingly, claimant is entitled to judgment in its favor and against each respondent, jointly and severally, for statutory damages, in the discretion of the Board, plus interest, and costs. By failing to obtain Petitioner’s authorization to use the Copyrighted Work or to compensate Petitioner for their various uses, The respondent has avoided payment of license fees and other financial costs associated with obtaining permission to exploit the Copyrighted Work, as well as the restrictions that Petitioner is entitled to and would place on any such exploitation as conditions for Petitioner’s permission, including the right to deny permission altogether The respondent has certainly gained an undeserved and unknown amount of revenue/profit from the derivative by exploiting my original music. This has caused an immeasurable amount of damage, damaging credibilit | Closed | Kenneth D Erwin | none | Rahkeim Meyer | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0072 | infringement | None given | Claimant Chase Plastic Services, Inc. ("Chase Plastics") is a Michigan corporation that specializes in providing engineering and commodity thermoplastics for small to medium-sized applications to customers, and, at a considerable expense, has produced marketing and advertising materials for its various products and services. Chase Plastics is the owner of all copyrights in, and has submitted copyright registration applications for, a number of marketing and advertising documents, including the following works at issue (the “Copyrighted Works”): Redefining Resin Distribution, Technical Service, The Chase Plastics Story, Recreational Outdoor and Firearms, and Website Content. See, Exhibits 1-5. Upon information and belief, Mr. Abhimanyu Khanna, a former employee of Chase Plastics, and President of California Plastics, reproduced, distributed, displayed, and/or altered the Copyrighted Works on California Plastics website at https://california-plastics.com/ and on various social media platforms, including LinkedIn (the “Infringing Works”). See, Exhibits 6, 7 and 8. Respondents’ Infringing Works are virtually identical to, substantially similar to, or derivative of Claimant’s Copyrig | As a result of Respondents’ actions described above, Claimant has been directly damaged, and is continuing to be damaged, by the unauthorized distribution and public display of the Infringing Works. Defendant has never accounted to or otherwise paid Plaintiff for its use of the Copyrighted Work. Claimant Chase Plastics is entitled to recover actual damages and profits or, in the alternative, statutory damages totaling the maximum allowed amount, and any additional measures that the Board deems appropriate. | Closed | Chase Plastic Services, Inc. | Varnum LLP | California Plastics | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0071 | 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 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 22, 2020 (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 Mary Anne Dawson and Lynette G. Giglio (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Bottoms Up Bar & Grill located at 1672 Hammonton-Smartsville Road, Suite A, Marysville, CA 95901 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents are individuals who reside in the State of California and owned and operated the Establishment o | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Certified | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Mary A. Dawson | Notice of Proposed Dismissal |
| 23-CCB-0070 | 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 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 22, 2020 (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 West Coast Soul LLC, Lavell Naquon Bynum, and Takela Corbitt (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as BlaqHaus NoHo located at 11671 Victory Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 91606 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Lavell Naquon Bynum and Takela Corbitt are individuals who reside in the State of California and were m | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Certified | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | West Coast Soul LLC | Claim Response |
| 23-CCB-0069 | -DMCA | NA | NA | 1. A sharp drop in sales. We sell this product on Amazon and have a solid monthly sales of about $18,000. Since the respondent put the infringing product on the shelves, the two products are very similar, and it is easy for consumers to mistake them for the same one. Now our monthly sales have dropped to about 7000USD per month. 2. Double the cost of promotion. Due to the increased competition, our advertising expenses have also increased a lot. Before, the monthly advertising cost was about 600 US dollars per month, and now it costs about 1100 US dollars per month per month. 3. Increased management costs. Due to the increase in competition, the exposure of our products has also decreased accordingly. We can only ask the operation to spend more time to improve the position of the products on the website, so as to ensure that more consumers can see our products. In response to this situation, we have complained to the respondent on the Amazon e-commerce platform. Amazon temporarily deleted the link of the respondent, but the other party counter-claimed on February 6, 2023 and asked Amazon to restore the link within 10 working days. If we do not submit a copy of the lawsuit by the | Closed | Shenzhiyishoumaoyishenzhenyouxiangongsi | none | guang zhou shi bo qing bo mao yi you xian gong si | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0068 | infringement | Broadcast of a basketball game | Chris Schieman Media and Brunswick Community College Basketball co-own the rights to the live streaming and on-demand broadcasts of all Brunswick Community College Basketball home games. Chris Schieman Media, specifically, owns the broadcasting rights for an agreed upon amount of home games. On February 9th, 2023, New Rock Prep was notified they were not allowed to live stream the game taking place that evening, due to these rights. New Rock Prep was given notice prior to this date as well. In two different instances, New Rock Prep fraudulently and willfully violated copyright and broadcasting rights by Chris Schieman Media by live streaming, or otherwise posting video of the basketball game against Brunswick Community College, without permission from Chris Schieman Media. Chris Schieman Media contacted YouTube, and YouTube agreed, removing both videos that New Rock Prep posted. | Chris Schieman Media is filing this claim to satisfy the requirements of a counter copyright notification sent to me by YouTube. I am not seeking monetary damages, only that my copyright and broadcasting rights remains protected. | Closed | Chris Schieman | none | Anthony Ivory | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0067 | infringement | Dramatic Work Music or Choreography ; Video and Voice | February 12, 2023 Email: dionnevalentine@gmail.com YouTube Channel: (5) StellaRoseAllDay - YouTube Re: CEASE AND DESIST: Trademark Infringement #StellaRoseAllDay and my photo Because you neither requested nor received permission, your unauthorized copying and use of the work constitutes copyright infringement under 17 U.S. Code Title 17. Email: ______________ My name is Dionne Lang My Pseudo name is Stella Rose I am a true crime author and I report on crime. I have written two books: ‘Shattered Windows’ a memoir, and ‘HU$H Money’ the sequel. Both are copyrighted I have sent the forms. The third copyright is #stellaroseallday “FOR HIRE” the copyright office is sending me the paper copy. Dec 2022 is registered. I will send the paper copy as soon as I get it in the mail. Violation of Face and Voice Defamation of my character Not paying me to use my copyright. No agreement, No authorization from me. What more proof do you need that these people are spamming me and stalking me and threating me, it’s called Harassment. I have a report from the Miami-Dade FBI office. Ever since I started documenting the murder of Aaron Carter, his DX groupie | Loss of income due and smear campain is damaging my professional reputation that I have been building since 2011. | Closed | Buy From Sammy | none | Stella R AllDay | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0066 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | A Glass orb filled with specific herbs, glitter and a fairy based on metaphysical properties | Making a derivative of my work as well as full defamation of character, harassment, incorrect statements, and cyber stalking | Overloads of personal phone call/hang ups, online negative comments from non purchasers of my own items overloaded on facebook and instagram by her followers after she became 'viral' and ongoing sent to my email in regards to her tiktok wave, stress, depression, lack of sales and ability to advertise, additional nerve and body pain and migraines exaserbated due to underlying condition, monetary relief and cease of creation derivatives of my items. | Closed | Michelle Milano | none | Eliza Davis | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0065 | infringement | None given | Our construction element paper plate, designed in September 2021, is an original creation of black and yellow color matching for architectural elements. Prior to this, the market was dominated by blue sky and white clouds background, plus yellow building site patterns. The above information can be found by searching for construction paper plate products on the Amazon e-commerce platform and confirming the release time. After the design is completed, we published it on the Amazon e-commerce platform on October 18, 2021. The product link is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JNX92Q9, everyone can visit and buy our products. After the design of our black and yellow architectural tableware is completed, in 2022, there are many imitated products on the market. The respondent is one of the imitators. The respondent - guang zhou shi bo qing bo mao yi you xian gong si owns and operates the online marketplace account identified by the https://www.amazon.com/sp?ie=UTF8&seller=A1QJFZNXCF3ZR1 and the Account Name Boqbo(“Online Marketplace”). The product (ASIN-B0BNZWRN2M) sold online in the above Amazon store plagiarized our product pattern design ideas, see below for details. Infringe | It infringes on our product design. Due to the high similarity in appearance, customers are prone to cognitive bias when they are sold on the same platform. On the premise that product quality cannot be guaranteed, it will have a certain impact on our brand and store reputation. Our monthly sales of this product are about 25,000 US dollars. Due to the infringement of the respondent, we have increased our investment in obtaining Amazon traffic and damaged our sales. Caused a loss of at least 25,000 US dollars. Since Amazon removed the other party's link, we have no way of finding out the profit the respondent made from the sale. We have complained to the respondent on the Amazon e-commerce platform, and Amazon has temporarily removed the respondent's link, but the other the respondent's counter-appeal requires Amazon to restore the link within 10 working days. We hope that the respondent will stop the infringing behavior, permanently delete their selling links, and promise not toinfringe our copyright again. | Closed | Shenzhiyishoumaoyishenzhenyouxiangongsi | none | guang zhou shi bo qing bo mao yi you xian gong si | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0064 | infringement | AERIAL OF HOUSTON SKYLINE FROM NORTHWEST | Making use of Jim Olive's (Photolive Inc.'s) copyrighted photographic image Aerial View of Downtown Houston at Dusk, and this use appears to be without license. The protected work appeared in the following location on the NDB website and could be seen in the link, https://ndbcpa.com/blog/entry/houston-texas-pci-dss-qsa-assessors-auditors-and-certification | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 9/10/19 thru 9/6/22 in the amount of $7500.00 | Closed | Photolive Inc. dba Stockyard Photos | none | NDB CPA | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0063 | infringement | Aerial evening view of Houston, Texas skyline from the Northwest with traffic on freeway in the foreground. Copyright © Jim Olive 2004 "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" | Making use of Jim Olive's copyrighted photographic image aerial view of downtown Houston at dusk, and this use appeared to be without license. The protected work appeared in the following location on the Raj for Houston website and could be seen in the enclosed link, https://www.rajforhouston.com | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 01/01/2020 thru 09/13/2022 in the amount of $7500.00 | Closed | Raj for Houston | none | Raj Salhotra | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0062 | infringement | AERIAL OF HOUSTON SKYLINE FROM NORTHWEST | Making use of Jim Olive's (Photolive Inc.) copyrighted photographic image Aerial Houston Skyline at Dusk, and this use appeared to be without license. The protected work appeared in the following location on the Guardstone Property Management website and could be seen in the enclosed link, http://www.guardstonepm.com/ | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 12/03/2021 thru 12/30/2022 in the amount of $2500.00 | Closed | Photolive Inc. dba Stockyard Photo | none | Guardstone Property Management | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0061 | infringement | AERIAL OF HOUSTON SKYLINE FROM NORTHWEST | Making use of Jim Olive's (Photolive's) copyrighted photographic image Aerial View of Downtown Houston at Dusk, and this use appeared to be without license. The protected work appeared in the following location on your website and could be seen in the enclosed link, https://www.masseyservices.com/pest-control/tx/houston during the infringement period. | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 01 /2022 thru 12/2022 in the amount of $2,500.00 | Closed | Photolive Inc. dba Stockyard Photos | none | Massey Services | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0060 | infringement | Aerial evening view of Houston, Texas skyline from the Northwest with traffic on freeway in the foreground. Copyright © Jim Olive 2004 "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" | Making use of Jim Olive's (Photolive Inc.'s) copyrighted photographic image aerial view of downtown Houston at dusk, and this use appears to be without license. The protected work appeared in the following location on the Peggy West Properties website at https://peggywest.com/2015/08/ | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 8/15/2015 thru 9/12/2022 in the amount of $17,500.00 | Closed | Photolive Inc. dba Stockyard Photos | none | Peggy West Properties | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0059 | infringement | Aerial evening view of Houston, Texas skyline from the Northwest with traffic on freeway in the foreground. Copyright © Jim Olive 2004 "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" | Making use of Jim Olive's (Stockyard Photo's) copyrighted photographic image (aerial view of downtown Houston at dusk), and this use appears to be without license. The protected work appears in the following location on the website (and can be seen in the enclosed link: https://downundapools.com/service-areas/houston-pool-builder/ | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 12/11 /21 - 09/12/2022 in the amount of $2500.00 | Closed | Photolive, Inc. dba Stockyard Photos | none | Downunda Pools | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0058 | infringement | COWBOYS ON HORSEBACK WITH OIL RIG | Making use of Jim Olive's (Stockyard Phots's) copyrighted photographic image #ZW2LO8529 (cowboys with oil rig), and this use appears to be without license. The protected work appears in the following location on your website (and can be seen in the enclosed link): https://www.wessupply.com/about us | Copyrighted photo use without a license; payment for the unlawful use or purchase of licensing for the infringement time period 8/16/2018 thru 9/5/2022 in the amount of $10,000.00. | Closed | Photolive, Inc. dba Stockyard Photos | Allied National Inc. | Wes Supply LLC | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0057 | infringement | Photographs of items I sell in my Etsy shop | The respondent screenshotted my photographs and posted them without my consent in their shop on Etsy and Mercari. I filed an intellectual property infringement report with Etsy and Etsy deactivated the infringing listings. The respondent filed a counter notice. I am taking a legal action to seek a court order. | As a result of the infringement, I suffered a significant loss in sales and I am seeking a compensation in the amount of $5,000 | Closed | Elena Jenkins | none | Amanda Smith | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 23-CCB-0056 | infringement-DMCA | Work of the Performing Arts - Audiovisual Works | Respondent uploaded Claimant's video to YouTube without permission after being notified that this video was not authorized to be uploaded by creator of video. Respondent then knowingly misrepresented to YouTube that Respondent had rights to video. Claimant herein submits email evidence demonstrating that Respondent's bad faith in uploading video and then continuing to knowingly and falsely assert rights to the video. | Claimant has had multiple offers from various entities, including Respondent, to purchase this video. Claimant has not sold rights to any entity to date. Nevertheless, Respondent uploaded and began profiting from video causing video to lose monetary value as a result. Claimant cannot sell exclusive rights to video when Respondent is already profiting off of it. Additionally, email evidence will show that Respondent is subject to bad faith misrepresentation pursuant to 17 USC 512(f). | Closed | Hayley F Bordes | Solo practitioner | ViralSnare | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0055 | infringement | This work is a sound recording, Production | In May 2016, Fly Guy Entertainment committed copyright infringement by using my track "Wifin You Beat" without obtaining a proper license and distributing it on all digital service platforms (DSPs). Despite this, they have refused to compensate me for the use of the track. | 30,000 | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | Thomas Ivans | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0054 | 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® 247: Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 8, 2020 (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 The O Club, LLC and Shawn O’Day (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as The O Club located at 2025 White Mountain Parkway, North Conway, NH 03860 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Shawn O’Day is an individual who resides in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and w | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | The O Club, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0053 | 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)] to authorize the public exhibition of (1) the Ultimate Fighting Championship® 247: Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 8, 2020 and (2) the Ultimate Fighting Championship® 248: Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on March 7, 2020 (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 Claimant. Respondents Culebra Cigar Company LLC, Matthew McDavid, and Robert O’Neill (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and contro | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $30,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violations of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Culebra Cigar Company LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0052 | 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® 247: Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 8, 2020 (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. Respondent Mohammad Azeem Farooq (the "Respondent") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Urban Skillet located at 5060 Lankershim Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 91601 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent is an individual who resides in the State of California and was an owner and operator of the Establishment on th | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondent’s willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Mohammad A. Farooq | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0051 | infringement | Picture of the claimant in a red shirt holding a white mug. | The responded has posted the copyrighted work in YouTube videos and instagram videos and is monetizing the work without permission from or compensation to the claimant. | Public shame and embarrassment. Emotional distress and trauma. Destruction of claimant's brand. Unauthorized monetization of claimant's intellectual property. | Closed | Tiffany Bowden | Alex Nahai ESQ. | Kaitlin Samuels | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0050 | infringement | Youtube video that was used without permission | This person used my copyright content without my permission and used my video to try to humiliate me. | Tried to ruin my brand as I have lost views and revenue because of this horrible act. | Closed | lakevin Davis | none | GEORGE booker | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0049 | infringement | A song | The infringing individual copied, remixed, repurposed, and created derivative copies of 1 or more our musical works and uploaded them to his/her public Youtube channel. The infringing individual did this no fewer than 38 times. | As a result of the defendant remixing and reposting our songs online, we have suffered harm in the form of lost profits from unauthorized use of our creative work, damage to our reputation as a musician, and loss of control over the distribution and monetization of our intellectual property. We further claim that the defendant's actions devalued the original song and caused harm to the our ability to commercially exploit the work as we intended. | Closed | Fat Damon Records | none | Albert J Evans | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0048 | infringement-DMCA | Paw Patrol Chase character with accompanying police car vehicle | Spin Master Ltd. (“Spin Master”) is the owner and producer of the children’s television program PAW PATROL (the “Program”), which airs on Viacom International Inc.’s (“VII”) Nickelodeon network. The Program and its related characters, which include Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Rubble, and Skye (the “Characters”), have enjoyed exceptional success worldwide, and have become well-known to the public. The Characters, designs, and visual representations developed in connection with the Program are protected by copyright in the U.S. and throughout the world. Spin Master has obtained copyright registration certificates from the U.S. Copyright Office for each of the Characters, and for the PAW PATROL logo. See Exhibit 1. VII has the authority to enforce Spin Master’s copyright rights in and to the Program and Characters against infringement by third parties. Shirt Traveler LLC (“Shirt Traveler”) is, without authorization, selling and/or offering for sale apparel displaying unauthorized derivatives of the Program Characters and logo (the “Infringing Designs”) through Shirt Traveler’s website and Etsy storefront. See Exhibit 2. Each Infringing Design utilizes the same color scheme and occu | Shirt Traveler’s actions falsely suggest to both parents and children that apparel and other consumer products featuring the Infringing Designs are affiliated with, or approved and endorsed by, Spin Master and/or VII. Shirt Traveler continues to sell and/or offer for sale products featuring the Infringing Designs willfully, in knowing disregard and violation of Spin Master’s copyright rights. Spin Master and VII are entitled to recover actual damages and profits or, in the alternative, statutory damages totaling $30,000, and any other additional measures that the Board deems appropriate. | Closed | Viacom International Inc. | none | Shirt Traveler LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim - Settlement |
| 23-CCB-0047 | infringement | Photograph of the colorful rocks on the shore of Lake Huron, with the lake in the background | Respondents accessed the photo online (probably Claimant's website), copied it illicitly, cropped it, then overlayed its own branding "Grunge" onto the photograph as well as "The Colorful Stones of Lake Huron," thereby creating a derivative work, then published it on its Facebook page where it was shared at least 70 times. | For loss of control of the photograph; loss of license fee; loss of CMI/attribution, and false attribution to Grunge, Claimant seeks the maximum statutory damages permitted as well as attorney's fees for Respondent's bad faith in refusing to discuss settlement, forcing litigation. | Closed | Mark Graf | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | 7Hops.com, Inc., dba Static Media dba Grunge.com | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0046 | infringement | Perspective view at sunset of Canal Street in downtown New Orleans. Red Streetcar in the foreground. Sheraton Hotel with bright Yellow and Red neon sign standing tall above all. | Respondent swiped copyrighted work from Claimant's website and used it on its own. Intentionally, the respondent cropped off Claimant's copyright notice to hide it from image. | Search statutory damages of $15000 and prompt removal of photo from all of Downtown Development District of New Orleans documents, website and servers. | Closed | Alfonso Bresciani | none | Downtown Development District of New Orleans | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0045 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists Damage to reputation. | Closed | DK Global Inc | none | Xtreme reflectives LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0044 | infringement | Black and white image of Charters Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans under the rain at twilight . Wet metal benches in the foreground. | Swiped my copyrighted photo from one of my websites and used it on its company website instead of inquiring for a license to use it legally. Respondent cropped out my copyright notice from it. It was done willingly, obviously. | I do not want my copyrighted works to appear on a construction company's website, I do not want to be affiliated with it. I mainly sell and license my works for editorial and private galleries and I very scrupulously select whom I want to license my photography to. I am looking for statutory damages of $15000 and would like the infringer to stop their activities. | Closed | Alfonso Bresciani | none | Acadia Renovations LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0043 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | Nina Designs, Ltd. | Donahue Fitzgerald LLP | Margaret A Skemp | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0042 | infringement | Short Film | The film was posted on YouTube without my consent. | I request that the film be removed from YouTube and that David Newman / ASPD Films stop posting this film on YouTube. | Closed | Dominic Haxton | none | David Newman | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0041 | infringement | Photo of Omni Hotel Charlottesville, VA | unlicensed use of stockyard.com image 20031219-SKAD1049 on Amstar's website from 7/03/17 thru 9/14/2022. | Failure to license the photo image and illegal use of said image during a period expaning 7/03/17 thru 9/14/2022. Economic damage has been determined as $12,500.00 | Closed | Photolive, Inc. dba StockyardPhotos | none | Amstar | Order Dismissing Claim and Finding Order to Show Cause Moot |
| 23-CCB-0040 | infringement | None given | Our construction element paper plate, designed in September 2021, is an original creation of black and yellow color matching for architectural element. Prior to this, the market was dominated by blue sky and white clouds background, plus yellow building site patterns. The above information can be found by searching for construction paper plate products on the Amazon e-commerce platform and confirming the release time. After the design is completed, we have published it on the Amazon e-commerce platform on October 18, 2021. The product link is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JNX92Q9?th=1, everyone can visit and buy our products. After the design of our black and yellow architectural tableware is completed, in 2022, there are many imitated products on the market. The respondent is one of the imitators. The respondent - jinhuashixichunzhizhipinyouxiangongsi owns and operates the online marketplace account identified by the Amazon account amazon.com/sp?seller=A3QDRZFO6775LJ and the Account Name tangpiao (“Online Marketplace”). The product (ASIN-B0BJQGNS89) sold online in the above Amazon store plagiarized our product pattern design ideas, see below for details. Infringeme | Our monthly sales of this product are about 25,000 US dollars. Due to the infringement of the respondent, we have increased our investment in obtaining Amazon traffic and damaged our sales. Caused a loss of at least 25,000 US dollars. Since Amazon removed the other party's link, we have no way of finding out the profit the respondent made from the sale. We have complained to the respondent on the Amazon e-commerce platform, and Amazon has temporarily removed the respondent's link, but the other the respondent's counter-appeal requires Amazon to restore the link within 10 working days. We hope that the respondent will stop the infringing behavior, permanently delete their selling links, and promise not to infringe our copyright again. | Closed | Shenzhiyishoumaoyishenzhenyouxiangongsi | none | jinhuashixichunzhizhipinyouxiangongsi | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0039 | infringement | Completely new arrangement/recording of a song to support a vocal track. | I was asked to produce music for different projects in exchange for fair pay and receiving the proper credit and royalties. I shared the audio files in good faith but we never got to sign any agreement. I received some payment. The amount was decided by the client without asking for an invoice. I received them as a sign of appreciation for all the work I had been doing and I believed a conversation and agreement signing was pending. The client has released and taken credit for my work. | 1)The prominent harm has been the stress added to my life because of this unfair treatment. It has been a constant source of anxiety that has been time-consuming and negatively impacted my life. 2)Not receiving credit for my work does not allow me to grow and receive more significant work opportunities. 3)Not including me in the mixing and mastering stages of the songs I arranged led to subpar audio quality that misrepresents my vision. 4)I have not received fair compensation for the time spent producing these tracks. Not being included in any kind of royalties deprives me of having a chance to get compensated fairly. I am looking to receive credit for the work I did and to receive the royalty payments that belong to me as the creator of the music. I believe that creating 100% of the music means that I should own a considerable amount of the master recording. I understand that everything is negotiable, but a 50% split sounds fair to me. | Closed | Diego M Garcia | none | Abraham Quintanilla | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0038 | infringement | Visual drawing artwork of a sports car. | I mailed my artwork to the Corvette National Museum.In 2020 General Motors introduced the all new Corvette C8 Stingray that looks very similar to my visual artwork.I did not give permission or authorization for it to be used.The all new Corvette Z06, the new E-Ray are all some form of reproduced or copy from my visual artwork.General Motors was working on a Zora project which was cancelled after I mailed my artwork to the Corvette National Museum.The Zora project does not look my artwork.My artwork is unique and it's obvious and no coincidence General Motors used my design.I have reason to believe someone from the Corvette National Museum gave General Motors my artwork without my permission.My visual artwork is copyright at the copyright office in Washington,D.C. | I have rights that was violated and I should be compensated fairly. | Closed | Jermaine Simmons | none | The Corvette National Museum | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0037 | infringement | Composite image incorporating public domain image with type treatment that reads "OBSIDIAN Eros, Hypnos and Thanatos" | Respondents were issued a cease and desist letter to stop using claiment's artwork for merchandise and online use, on or around 8/20/22. Claimant began process of registering copyright for the artwork on 10/26/22. Respondents continued to use claimant's artwork to sell merchandise and online products without permission or compensation, as well as create derivatives and misrepresent the authorship of the artwork. | Claimant has suffered financially: paying for legal costs and from not being compensated for sales of products bearing his artwork. Claimant, who is a self-employed graphic designer, has also had his reputation tarnished in the community in which his client base is rooted, by having his artwork falsely misrepresented as being that of other artists. Claimant is seeking relief in the form of minimum statutory damages of $750 per work infringed. | Certified | Charles Osuchowski | none | Tyler F Lewis, Mr | Request for Dismissal |
| 23-CCB-0036 | infringement | The melody is the same as Havana. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roYs9arHUQs listen to this song which was written in the middle of 1950s and compare it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCjNJDNzw8Y havana, by Giorgi Tsabadze as you can see here https://gmi.ge/portfolio-items/giorgi-gogi-tsabadze/?lang=en. | If you play the song Havana and Kucha-Kucha Alublebs you can see that the melody is the exact same, now this artist has passed away and isn't getting any praise for his wonderful work of art and yet Havana is one of the top songs and clams originality. | Closed | MIRIANI IREMADZE | none | Karla CC Estr | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0035 | infringement | Videocassette (VHS) featuring comedy performance | COPYRIGHT: Comedy Spotlight Productions, Inc. (“Claimant”) is the beneficial owner of the copyright of the motion picture titled “One Night with Dice” (hereinafter “the Work”). (See U.S. Copyright Registration No. PA0000409262; March 16, 1989) BACKGROUND OF THE WORK: The Work is an approximately 46-minute video featuring a recording of a live stand-up comedy performance by a Comedian. Taped at Philadelphia’s Comedy Factory Outlet in 1986, it is a rare recording from the early stage of the Comedian’s career before he went on to achieve national name recognition. Upon initial release by Vestron Video (then a subsidiary of Vestron, Inc.), the Work reached #2 on the Billboard Video Chart - bested only by a video release from Sir Paul McCartney himself. This instant success was remarkable considering the Work’s VHS list price at the time ($59.99) and a complete absence of any promotional and marketing activities to generate audience interest in the Work. Upon expiration of the agreement between Claimant and Vestron Video in 2002, Rhino Entertainment Co. (“Rhino”), a subsidiary of Warner Bros., quickly stepped forward to acquire distribution rights to the Work. In 2009, | Respondents' incorporation of the Work's recorded performance of an entire joke in Episode 3 of the Series does not amount to Fair Use. Hence, Respondents have infringed on Claimant's copyright. Claimant seeks $15,000.00 in damages. | Certified | Comedy Spotlight Productions, Inc. | Cognition IP, P.C. | Store on Sunset LLC | Amended Scheduling Order |
| 23-CCB-0034 | infringement | Music sound recording | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0033 | infringement | Music sound recording | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0032 | infringement | Photograph of offshore oil rig in the ocean with spilled oil in the foreground water. | Respondent is the owner of the South Florida Times and maintains a website at www.sftimes.com (the “SFT Website”). On January 25, 2020, Claimant discovered that beginning on or about January 4, 2020, Respondent reproduced, distributed, and displayed Claimant’s copyrighted photograph of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon - BP Gulf oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in connection with Respondent’s publication or republished an article titled "LOOKING DOWN ON A DECADE: SATELLITE IMAGES TELL THE STORIES," on the SFT Website, and possibly elsewhere. Plaintiff’s photograph is not only used without her knowledge or permission, Respondent incorrectly attributes credit for Plaintiff’s photograph to Pinterest.com, 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, and despite the fact that Respondent knew or should have known that Pinterest is not the owner of the vast majority of the content posted to its website. The claimant believes Respondent knowingly failed to include credit to Claimant in order to conceal its own infringement and/or to induce, | $15,000 - Statutory damages - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits - Omitted attribution induced, facilitated, and encouraged further downstream infringement | Certified | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Beatty Media, LLC | Order Granting Request to Link Robert Beatty with the Beatty Media, LLC party |
| 23-CCB-0031 | infringement | Photograph of Lake Stevens Food Bank Groundbreaking | Respondents used Claimant's photograph in a campaign mailer Respondents mailed to voters in support of Respondent Gary Petershagen's campaign for re-election to the Lake Stevens City Council without Claimant's knowledge or authorization. | Claimant seeks monetary damages not to exceed $8,000 as a licensing fee. | Closed | Casey Strom | Duff Law PLLC | Gary Petershagen | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0030 | infringement | Music track | Illegal publication on the following iTunes URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original music publishing. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | Apple Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0029 | infringement | Music Video | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0028 | infringement | Music Video | Illegal publication on the following YouTube url. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0027 | infringement | Music Video | Illegal publication on the following YouTube URL. | Loss of monetization. Loss of profits. Damage to artist. Damage to artists official original YouTube Channel. Damage to reputation. | Closed | World Media Alliance Label inc | none | YouTube, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0026 | infringement-DMCA | Pet parents on tv pets on tv motion picture charitable giving | Used pics published Copyright and trademark with permission picture name information belongs to me as I am on tv | Defamation reputation Risk harm | Closed | Dan Walden | none | The Georgia Gazette, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0025 | infringement | Trade name | Mr. Dossey is using my trade name to redirect to his website, creating sales at my expense. | Rather than receiving these inquiries and customers myself, Mr. Dossey is taking these leads. I would like him to cease and desist, and to compensate me for customers yielded by this redirect. | Closed | Kevin Bachhuber | none | All things bugs llc | Order Closing Case |
| 23-CCB-0024 | infringement | 33 RPM Soul by Michelle Shocked | unauthorized recording of live performance creating a derivative work of unlicensed compositions creating an sync reproduction of unlicensed compositions | my reputation and integrity have been maligned as a result of my reasonable assertion of copyright protections. The relief I am seeking is the cost of filing this claim and a meaningful apology | Certified | Michelle Shocked | none | Law Rocks | Discovery Order |
| 23-CCB-0023 | infringement | Professional photograph of a kitchen | Mr. Vogts is a professional real estate photographer. US LA used his work to promote its construction and remodeling business without seeking a license to use that work. Mr. Vogts had his licensing agent reach out to US LA in June 2022. In response US LA removed the work from its website and Yelp page, but has otherwise refused to communicate with Mr. Vogts or offer any compensation for the use of that work. | Lost licensing fees; statutory damages. | Closed | Brandon Vogts | Doniger / Burroughs PC | US LA Home Remodeling, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0022 | infringement | artwork, tarot cards deck with registrated text and photographs | She/he/they use of works protected by copyright without permission for usage where such permission selling on Amazon: ASIN: B0BNL4ZLD3 Title: STENDA Tarot Cards Beginners Deck: Rider Beginner Waite Card Set with Guidebook Large Original Tarot Meanings on Them - 78 Classic Giant Size Decks - Reading Pretty Jumbo Kit Astrology Keywords We did a test buy, and plagiarism on 98% of the text, and 23 % for photographs.2% of texts was rephrased. | Along with a staggering amount of lost revenue, and the impact of piracy on our brand. It also took a toll on our reputation and brand image. We got several complaints about these replica. | Closed | Nataliia Vereina | none | guo zhong wei | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0021 | infringement | Graphic Art Print | Many listings are stolen of pending copyrighted work and other works not yet copyrighted or pending copyright. Not only are the artworks stolen but very blatantly stolen. Listings and mockup photos that display the photos are the exact same. The titles where you write what the product/ design is are identical. | Loss of sales and infringement of pending copyrighted graphic art prints. A DMCA filed through etsy where they removed the stolen art prints that were for sale. After etsy removed their art prints they then wrongfully reinstated the stolen artwork back onto their storefront and are continuing to sale them. Another claim with etsy was issued as of today, January 18, 2023 and is pending. Identical art photos, art designs, as well as titles are identical. Tried to resolve through etsy with a DMCA filing. Then wrote a cease and desist that is currently being sent to them. This was the last resort. | Closed | The Velaris Company LLC | none | Justina Beagnyam | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0020 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® 247: Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 8, 2020, and the Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II boxing program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on February 22, 2020 (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 any of the Programs in their commercial business without authorization from Claimant. Respondents Tilly Jane’s, LLC and Lucas Ward (collectively the | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $30,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violations of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Tilly Jane's, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0019 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020 (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 The Talent Club, Inc. and Kandice Daly (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as The Talent Club located at 114 Talent Avenue, Talent, OR 97540 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Kandice Daly is an individual who resides in the State of Louisiana and w | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | The Talent Club, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0018 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020 (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 Ramirez-Jimenez, LTD., Maria Jimenez, and Jose Ramirez (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Ramirez Mexican Restaurant & Store located at 5105 Capitol Blvd., Suite C, Tumwater, WA 98501 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Maria Jimenez and Jose Ra | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Ramirez-Jimenez LTD. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0017 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020 (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 Koozie’s Daiquiri & Sports Bar, LLC and Kimberly Primeaux (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Koozie’s Drive Thru Daiquiri & Sports Bar located at 2622 Highway 14 E., Lake Charles, LA 70607 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Kimberly Primeaux is | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Koozie's Daiquiri & Sports Bar, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0016 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020 (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 LNH, LLC, Lori Harmon and Neal Harmon (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Burlington Pizza/The Barn located at 716 S. Michigan Street, Burlington, IN 46915 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Lori Harmon and Neal Harmon are individuals who reside | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | LHN, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0015 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020 (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 Rio’s Pizza Inc., Clara J. Rio, and John Rio (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Rio’s Pizza located at 1949 Durfee Avenue, South El Monte, CA 91733 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Clara J. Rio and John Rio are individuals who reside in the S | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Rio's Pizza Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0014 | 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® 246: Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on January 18, 2020 (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 J. Street Holdings LLC and Yvette D. Prindle (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Mountain Mike’s Pizza located at 606 J Street, Marysville, CA 95901 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Yvette D. Prindle is an individual who resides in the State of | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | J. Street Holdings LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0013 | infringement | A chevron maze textile pattern | Exact copies of the designs were sold by the respondent using an Amazon store. | lost sales due to duplicate articles. Seeking an injunction and damages of $29800.00 | Closed | TJ&A Global | Globalwide IP Inc | Subodh Kumar Gupta | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0012 | infringement | Photograph of Dandelion Seed Pendant Necklace | My photograph DSC_0046.JPG has been posted on Pinterest by Nano Kim at Oswin West to promote and advertise their product. | As a small business owner, I depend upon the repeat sales of my loyal customers. These customers have recognized my photography and product and have been duped into buying an inferior product from Nano Kim at Oswin West. This has caused me to lose money from these would be transactions. | Closed | Contina Pierson | none | Nano Kim | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0011 | infringement | Animation TV Program Cow and Chicken and I am Weisel | Warner Bross send to David Feiss a document, to sign and revoke my rights. I never received that document nor I ever signed. They knew I would never sign and they intentionally forge my signature. | Uncollected royalties unknown the amount. In 2009 I got a court order that granted me 35% of the copyright. Warner keep ignoring my rights. | Closed | Pilar Menendez | none | Warner Bross Entertainment | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0010 | infringement | Visual Material | They have taken photos that are copyrighted from multiple music covers and included them in these Instagram posts with a falsified story as they are featuring the wrong individual. The last post, the artist rapping on this song does not own creative control of this beat. They were not authorized to use my beat. They did not pay and this Instagram creator is publishing this content. | The relief sought such as damages suffered as a result of the infringement and any profits of the infringer that are attributable to the infringement and are not taken into account in computing the actual damages. They have utilized a copyrighted photo to publish a false story using the wrong person as their image. | Closed | Matt Tanga | none | chicago_hits3 | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0009 | infringement | MY BOOK | Ingram spark distributing my book to book vendors titled as THE SECRET AGENDA BY FELICIA WILLIAMS to book vendors in Europe and Asia even though i had cancelled printing services with Ingram spark in jury 2020, and amazon selling my book STRANGERS IN THE BLOCK on line as ebook after i had cancelled with Amazon in August 2022 and cancellation was confirmed by Amazon | I HAVE BEEN DENIED THE PROCEEDS FROM THE SALES OF MY BOOK THIS HAS HAD A GREAT IMPACT ON MY PERSON WHEN EVER I REMEMBER SEEING MY BOOK ON BOOK VENDOR SITES I ADVERTISED WITH A PRICE TAG AND I AM NOT AWARE OF THIS, I WILL BE SO DISTURBED EMOTIONALLY AND I AM SEEKING FINANCIAL COMPENSATION ON THIS ISSUE. | Closed | FELICIA C WILLIAMS | none | INGRAM SPARK | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0008 | infringement | A daytime view of Manhattan skyline, financial district, taken from a helicopter. | The photograph is displayed on the homepage of Precision Test & Balance, approximately 1/2 screen size https://ptbny.com/ | Licensing images is an integral part of my business. Not only did I lose the revenue from this particular license, but potential licenses from other companies, such as competing companies of PTB or other companies in the New York metro area, that would not want to license the same image due to it being on PTB's website. | Closed | George Steinmetz | none | Precision Test & Balance | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0007 | infringement-DMCA | dramatic acting revolving around a fictitious situation involving fictitious voicemail recordings | This individual publicly displayed, distributed and “performed” (via audio playback through the video) the work only I own the copyright to. | The market value of the audio performance has substantially lowered due to so many parties hearing it and I can no longer resell the recording. I am not seeking financial relief, however I request that this individual stop stealing my audio and video works (and the works of others - such as my associate Controlla aka Kerissa DiBenedetto. | Closed | Alexandra Mayers | none | Myka Wallace | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0006 | infringement-DMCA | Blog posts | Home gain has received several notices from me regarding their publication of my work and also indexing my name. Yesterday upon seeing these links again I was able to log into an old account. The contact information for Keller Williams Chapel Hill using my license number. Keller Williams was named in a legal matter in 2015 and my lawyer excused them from the mattet without my knowledge. I was able to remove the Keller Williams contact info and update the profile but there appears to be a second profile on their new website 2017 forward that I cannot access. | I was put out of business denied access to my top ranjed blog. This resulted in a decade of lost income early retirement reduce Social Security benefits PTSD and anxiety disorder. | Closed | Marie C Scheuring | none | Homegain.com, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0005 | infringement | Website intellectual property literature text | Loss of analytical traffic, and loss of customer interaction due to confusion associated with duplicated content. Deliberately misplaced certain wording to deceive intellectual property thieves to aid in the process of retrieving our intellectual property stolen. Search engine optimization caused a decrease in web flow. | $29,000 worth of damages | Closed | The Bin Men | none | Juan DIAZ-CHAVARRIA | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0004 | infringement-DMCA | Music Video | They have taken portions of each video listed and put it on YouTube, Patreon, and TikTok to promote numerous documentaries they have created. I have submitted successful YouTube copyright strikes that they have taken down but they still continue to mass distribute my videos on other platforms and are now appealing this on YouTube. This creator is associating our music video footage with their documentaries without any type of confirmation or consent from us. They have even went as far as removing our logos and placing their logo on the infringing videos essentially attempting to repackage our already copyrighted music video footage. There is blatant false and unactual information throughout these documentaries. Ultimately, the lack of credit and the altering of our footage is the biggest issue. The respondent frivolously stated to YouTube in an email stating "I have a good faith belief that the material identified in the Notice of Infringement was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled." after being informed of Complainant's prior rights on the copyrighted work. | Loss of revenue and reputation as they have monetized my copyrighted graphical & musical works. Actual damages suffered sought as a result of the infringement and any profits the infringer gained through these videos that were available online for up to one year. | Closed | Brian Johnson | none | ChicagoScene88 | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0003 | infringement | A harlequin Great Dane jumping over a baby gate/fence with the caption "Getting ready for the Olympics" | Petco illegally downloaded my short motion picture and used it on their corporately owned Pupbox social media account without my permission. | On April 2nd, 2021, Petco/Pupbox intently stole my content from the Instagram platform to use for their personal gain on their own social media platform. I sent a message to Pupbox via direct message on Instagram dated April 2nd, 2021. They were informed that they did not have permission to use my content. There was no reply from Pupbox and permission was never granted. My brand, Love Margot is trademarked. I am under contractual obligations with other pet brands. By Pupbox illegally using my content under Petco/Pupbox social profiles, implemented to millions of people that I represent the Pupbox brand (Petco family) when in fact, I never have. I am seeking damages of $30,000 for loss of other brand campaigns. Pupbox replied via email apologizing, they did not remove the content. The content itself was later removed by Instagrams copyright team. | Certified | Sabrina Giardina | none | PETCO ANIMAL SUPPLIES STORES, INC. | Order to Submit Evidence List |
| 23-CCB-0002 | infringement | A compilation of clips of a harlequin Great Dane and a premature Chihuahua puppy. | Pets on Q illegally downloaded my short motion picture and used it on their social media account without my permission. | On 10/21/22 Pets on Q intently stole my content from my Tiktok account to use for their personal gain on their own social media platform. They did not properly notify my account of this video being used, seemingly intentionally leaving a space between the @ and my username (@ deardanes) so that it would not notify me that this video was used. They also did not ask permission to use, nor utilize Instagram's features of tagging or collaborating on reels. I filed a copyright infringement form on November 3rd, 2022, requesting that Instagram remove the video. Pets on Q is a platform who's entire purpose is to "enable collaboration among our vetted pet influencers & set animals with brands and agencies through expert technology and services. We bring the key assets of advanced influencer search, pricing analysis, and full campaign management." Since their platform seeks to pay influencers and social media managers for the content that they create, I had reached out to Colleen Wilson on September 4, 2022, inquiring about a paid collaboration for a DNA Pet Company. Colleen replied on September 8, 2022, stating: "Your account is so great! I am a huge fan of people that foster li | Closed | Natalie Bendinelli | none | PETS ON Q, INC. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 23-CCB-0001 | infringement | PHOTO OF MAN IN YELLOW SHIRT SITTING ON ANOTHER | A NUMBER OF MY COPYRIGHTED PHOTOS ARE USED ON THE META PLATFORM ON THE FOOLOWING FACEBOOK PAGE. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054769401998 | THE PHOTOS ARE USED FOR AGREGIOUS DEFAMATORY PURPOSES CALLING THE PERSON APPEARING IN THEM A PEDOPHILE. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL COURT RULLINGS WHICH HAD RULLED AGAINST SUCH BASELESS CLAIMS, FOR EXAMPLE MIAMI DADE COUNTY FLORIDA CASE 2019-007732-SP-05 | Closed | roy miller | none | META PLATFORMS | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0281 | infringement | This work is a sound recording, Production | Without my express written consent, the YouTuber violated my rights by uploading my sound recording. They stole a music from a portal for digital services. The song's title is "Wifin You." I am unsure of when it was ripped. I only know that it was used without my will. | My rights were infringed, resulting in suffering. $5,000 is what I charge for licenses. Losing my licensing fee money as a result of someone uploading my music without my consent was unfortunate for me. $5,000 would be my requested relief. | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | Chris M Garcia | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0280 | infringement | 2D artwork of a crystal cube | My copyrighted artwork was displayed multiple times with false accusations of constant slandered of our company as in being a scammer accusing us of stealing and robbing our customers and also individual made claims that our copyrighted material belong to him. Multiple displays of our copyrighted 2D artwork were displayed on his website messenger taunting our company that he could display or copyrighted artwork as many times as he wanted to without permission as he slandered our company's name with false accusations and copying and altering our 2D artwork to defile our company's name. We have had found several fake accounts using our name and copyrighted logo pretending to be us to slander our company name using our copyrighted work to trick customers that we are potential scammers. These fake accounts were also displayed on the platforms of YouTube Instagram and Facebook. | My website and company emails and phone has received hundreds of emails claiming that our company is a scam also racial slurs due to the fact that I'm a American also disturbing pornography and threatening hate text messages and phone calls about me my family and my company these acts have also cost me a few good business deal and sales. I've been through mountains of stress and anxiety because of this person hateful actions that has put my life and those around me in danger not to add I have to work even harder to defend my company's good name because his actions I strongly feel that this person should get the maximum penalty due to what he did to my company and I also wish that this person will leave my company and my family alone. We need Justice for the actions that this person committed against my company and the peace of mind that this person will leave us alone! | Closed | kenneth A byrd | none | Jaime F Gonzalez | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0279 | infringement | Story | They have put the video claiming it as their own work. | Misinformation has spread using my video. | Closed | Man, et al | none | Chicagoscene88 | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0278 | infringement | Music Video | They took portions of my video and put it on Youtube and Patreon. I have submitted successful YouTube copyright strikes that they have taken down but they still continue to mass distribute my videos and are now appealing this on Youtube. | They have monetized my content and gained income using my music video I have already copyrighted. | Closed | Dumitru Sandru | none | Chicagoscene88 | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0277 | infringement | The work represents a video of my interview of Mr. Jhon Jairo Velasquez (aka “Popeye”) that has been filmed for the purposes of the PhD thesis. | The infringing act occurred when the copy of record of the interview has been illegally obtained and modified by third parties without obtaining the permission of the author. To the best of my knowledge, the shooting team has illegally transferred the working materials to the third parties. Having the entire working copy of the video, the third parties edit my work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEzHUU5cBo8. On YouTube and Google. I shall underline that the interview questions have been prepared by myself only. Further, the infringement occurred when illegally modified video has been published on different channels online by means of the online service provider (YouTube and Google). | The provider is taking serious a counter notification which is fraud documents and fake information. | Certified | Catalina Maria Jaramillo | none | YouTube and Sebastian xibille | First Default Notice |
| 22-CCB-0276 | infringement | Anchorage, words and music by Michelle Shocked | Unlicensed synchronization of my composition and sound recording, “Anchorage,” in a video work on YouTube, non-compliant compulsory mechanical license for a derivative work, "Anchored Down in Amsterdam," non-compliant compulsory mechanical license for audio streaming distribution | I have the exclusive right to grant synchronization licenses for performances of my musical composition and sound recording, "Anchorage," with video works. I have the exclusive right to grant mechanical licenses for derivative works for my musical composition and sound recording, "Anchorage,". This unauthorized use causes serious harm to the market for licensing my works. I am seeking full statutory relief. | Certified | Michelle Shocked | none | Tunecore | Order Regarding Request for Additional Discovery |
| 22-CCB-0275 | infringement | Recorded/uploaded LIVE video game play. | Youtube user Screen recorded my live video WAYYYY past the point of fair use. Fair use utilizes small clips for commentary. This user recorded hours of my content without my permission and then edited that content into a 30 minute youtube video.He also claims hes making ANOTHER video with more of my content that hes recorded. this will be the 3rd video hes made about me/my community ft my content. i've asked him to stop and to leave my content alone. hes banned from my twitch page. nothing i do is working and he continues to make youtube content about me using my content. | Members from his community have bot followed my twitch account under VERY racist and homophobic names. Bullied my community. The initial video he made was supposed to be anon. He purposefully edited the video to make sure people came to my streams. It stats in the details of the video that my identity was hidden. it was NOT. I've been harrassed in multiple ways by him and his community. I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE. all videos of me or about me taken down. | Closed | Wesley Morrow | none | Nicholas Gwizdak | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0274 | infringement | artwork, tarot cards deck with registrated text and photographs | This person sells my intellectual property. Complaint ID: 11584585941 | Actual damages are the losses suffered by the copyright owner as a result of the infringement. This includes lost sales, lost profits, lost licensing revenue, or any other demonstrable monetary loss resulting from the infringement. | Closed | VHNS LLC | none | Zhang Jingwen | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0273 | infringement | Live comedy performance by Ralphie May | Respondents have posted the work through multiple links to their YouTube channel, @SolarisEntertainmentMedia. Respondents are also displaying and performing the work on Spotify and Facebook. The YouTube and Spotify postings known to Claimant are currently the subject of a YouTube takedown notice and, upon information and belief, are not currently accessible by YouTube users. Respondents, upon information and belief, are also manufacturing, selling, and/or distributing physical copies of the work, and are distributing digital copies of the work online. | Claimant seeks to recover all of respondents' profits and Claimant's damages, up to $30,000, or, alternatively, statutory damages of $15,000, which ever is greater. Claimant also seeks to recover her attorneys' fees and costs. | Certified | Lahna Turner | Ice Miller LLP | Michael Bloom | Order Regarding Discovery and Scheduling Conference |
| 22-CCB-0272 | infringement | Photograph of Canon lens extender on white background | Respondent Ducati Studios, LLC, dba Snap Studios ("Snap") accessed the photograph at issue via Claimant's website at https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/canon-ef-1-4x-extender-ii-review/ and illicitly copied it from there. Snap then reproduced, posted, displayed, and distributed the photograph on its commercial website and its instagram page, to promote that it offered the lens extender for rent. Snap never requested nor was ever granted a license for these uses. After being put on notice of the infringement, Snap did not cease using the photograph. Counsel for Claimant filed DMCA Takedown Notices with AWS and Instagram, effecting the removal of the work. Respondents Ivey and Duran, as sole managing members of Snap, had control over the infringing uses of the photograph and received a financial benefit by remuneration from any rentals of the extender. Therefore, Ivey and Durant are vicariously liable for the direct infringement by Snap. | Claimant requests statutory damages in the amount of $15000. Claimant further requests attorney's fees and costs as Respondents have shown bad faith in their pre-litigation communications (see attached statement of facts). | Closed | Michael Russell | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | Ducati Studios, LLC dba Snap Studios | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0271 | infringement | Short Sharp Shocked, an album with words and music, performed by Michelle Shocked | Unlicensed synchronization of my compositions and my sound recording, “Short Sharp Shocked,” in a video work | I have the exclusive right to grant synchronization licenses for performances of my musical compositions and my sound recording, "Short Sharp Shocked," with video works. This unauthorized use causes serious harm to the market for licensing my works. I am seeking up to the full $5000 limited claim | Closed | Michelle Shocked | none | Eric Strauss | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0270 | infringement-DMCA | IT IS A SPIRITUAL WRITTEN BOOK OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR HEALING AND PROSPERITY OF LIVING | THEY STOLE MANUSCRIPT AND SOLD IT TO VENDORS, PRIVATE PROPERTY, FAMILY HEIRLOOM, STRCITLY WRITTEN TO BLESS IMMEDIATE BELL RESIDENCE. MY SOLE PROPERTY. | I've been robbed of life insurance, health insurance, elderly and disabled insurance, college tuitions, food and clothing, rent, childcare expenses, transportation, pleasure/leisure expenses, grandparents expenses, vacation expenses, mental health/ all health expenses. THE HARM THAT I SUFFER IS THE INAPPRECIATION OF MY PERSON AND THANKSGIVING OF THE LORD WHO I WORSHIP. AND UNGRATEFUL COUNTRY THAT ROBBED ME BLIND. THAT DID NOT ADOURN ME AT ALL, MY BOOK IS WORTHY OF MY STAND AND GLORY AND RISER OF MINE. PLEASE UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE TAKE THIS PERSONAL BUT ALLOW ME TO TAKE MY POSSESSIONS THAT I BLESS THE LORD WITH AS WELL AS MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY. I HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF MY RIGHTS. MY CHARACTER, AND ALL THAT I HAVE BECOME.I AGREE THAT YOU WOULD PAY ME 70% OF ALL ROYALITIES AND RIGHTS TO THE BOOK CALLED "HE'S A FRIEND OF MINE." OF COURSE I WOULD LIKE THE BOOK TO STAY ON THE MARKET, I AM NOT TRYING TO NOT HELP OR HEAL ANYONE, UNFORTUNATELY THESE THINGS HAPPEN. SINCE THE PUBLIC HAS FOUND INSPIRIATION THROUGH MY WRITINGS WORLDWIDE, I'D LIKE TO KEEP THE BOOK ON THE MARKET. PLEASE CONSIDER IT IS A ONE TIME PAYMENT OF 70% THAT I AM ASKING FOR AND I WILL NOT COME BACK TO ASK FOR MORE, NO MATTER | Closed | YVETTE BELL | none | FIRST BOOK LIBRARY | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0269 | infringement | An approximately 90-second audiovisual explanation of the type of work Armatus Dealer Uplift performs and why the targeted audience should choose Armatus as its agent/vendor, conveyed through a script and animation video images. | Respondent Wooden has, without Claimant Armatus' permission, used a large majority of Claimant's script, and animation, in creating it's own video which it then posted/dispayed the work on the website warrantypart.com. Respondent Wooden created an unauthorized derivative work copying/reproducing much of Claimant Armatus' concept animation and reproducing much of Claimant's script verbatim. Respondent Wooden then displayed and performed the work publicly as its own. Claimant Armatus alleges that Respondent Wooden posted the unauthorized derivative work on warrantypart.com in an effort to intercept potential car dealership-clients searching for Armatus Warranty Uplift's website (www.dealeruplift.com) and using the nearly identical video to usurp Armatus' commerical business opportunities or to confuse potential clients. | Lost business and profit profits due to potential confusion among prospective clients about identity of this motion picture owner and also quality of services offered by Claimant Armatus versus those allegedly offered by Respondent Wooden. Respondent Wooden was trying to sow confusion and intercept potential clients looking for Armatus Dealer Uplift online. Claimant Armatus is a leader in the dealer uplift industry and Respondent Wooden. Disgorgement of Wooden profits from its use of the infringing video. Statutory damages of $15,000. An agreement by Wooden to cease its infringing activity. | Closed | ARMATUS DEALER UPLIFT, LLC | Law Office of Steven Wrobel LLC | Wooden Automotive Consultants LLC | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0268 | infringement | fairy silhouettes | Respondent is selling a product that contains copyrighted works. | Lost sales - seeking maximum allowed and requesting removal of respondents product from sale. | Closed | Pinwheel Crafts LLC | none | Shenzhen Jinjuhong Technology Co., Ltd. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0267 | infringement | Fantasy painting of the three graces of mythology | Fine Art America is hosting the infringing content, which is posted for sale by a user of their platform who is selling prints of the subject artworks (along with many others which are not registered) without permission. Fine Art America has been contacted twice via their designated DMCA agent and has not removed the content. | They are selling prints of Ms. Wall's work without permission, which we anticipate will harm authorized licensees who have the rights to sell these images as prints, including Metaverse/Fulcrum Gallery, Mixtiles, and Art.com (who are all legitimate licensees). | Closed | Josephine Coulson | none | Fine Art America | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0266 | infringement | Unicorn Pillow Kit | The product this person is selling is an exact replica of our pillow case design with gold horn and ears. The images on the box and the instruction manual are exact or substantially similar to our product packaging and instructions. The listing images used contain substantially similar images to our listing. | Lost sales - requesting maximum allowed and for the seller to remove all product and images. | Closed | Pinwheel Crafts LLC | none | Christa M Hart | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0265 | infringement | Music, Lyrics, and Musical Arrangement; date of publication was 01/01/1993 and the date of creation is 1993; an embodiment of a public domain work within the sound recording of Holy Spirit, which is arranged by Michelle Shocked | In 1993 a charity benefit album titled “Sweet Relief” was released, which contained a recorded performance by Michelle Shocked, of a derivative version of the song “Holy Spirit” by composer Victoria Williams. Within the “Holy Spirit” sound recording was an original arrangement created by Michelle Shocked of a public domain composition titled “Come By Here.” Sony’s authority to distribute copies of the “Holy Spirit” / “Come By Here” sound recording ended in 1996. Michelle Shocked retained the sole and exclusive right to issue copies of the “Holy Spirit" / "Come By Here” recording and registered her claim of ownership with the Copyright Office Sony Music Entertainment infringed her copyrights when it manufactured and distributed a 2022 vinyl pressing of thousands of copies of the “Sweet Relief” charity album, with further distribution to online streaming platforms, which includes “Holy Spirit" / "Come By Here” without permission, and without a license from Michelle Shocked | devaluation and / or market failure for my exclusive intellectual property rights caused by infringement of my copyrights. I am seeking full statutory relief | Closed | Michelle Shocked | none | Sony Music Entertainment | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0264 | infringement | Written Product Description for Electronic Commerce | The infringing party had, as of 12/7/22, a listing for a similar/competing product where she had not only stolen our idea/product but had also copied almost exactly our original written product description. The listing was found here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1210336760/teacher-appreciation-lanyard-badge-reel It is currently removed from Etsy courtesy of a DMCA takedown notice. However, the infringer filed a counter noticed and swore under penalty of perjury that she was not infringing on our rights. A cached version of the listing is available at this URL: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SPlBSD1jPe0J:https://www.etsy.com/listing/1210336760/teacher-appreciation-lanyard-badge-reel&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari You'll need to scroll down a bit and expand the "Item Description" section in the right column. Alternatively, here is our product listing/description: https://www.etsy.com/listing/869593123/personalized-beaded-lanyard-for-keys-or We did contact the infringing party and requested that they agree to change their product description. However, we've not heard from them after repeated attempts, so we are forced to proceed wit | We request that the infringer cease using our intellectual property, pay statutory damages, and reimburse all fees and costs. | Closed | By the Graces, LLC | none | Jennifer Villalobos | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0263 | infringement | Anchorage, by Michelle Shocked | Unlicensed synchronization of my composition and sound recording, “Anchorage,” in a video work | I have the exclusive right to grant synchronization licenses for performances of my musical composition and sound recording, "Anchorage," with video works. This unauthorized use causes serious harm to the market for licensing my works. I am seeking full statutory relief. | Certified | Michelle Shocked | none | Gavin McInnis | Second Default Notice |
| 22-CCB-0262 | infringement | The Most Popular 3rd-Party App Store on iOS and Android without Jailbreak or Apple ID | The Panda Helper logo and Panda Helper text are also protected under copyright law for our company. Reproducing these logos on the panda-helper.org website is a copyright infringement on its own. The designation "Panda Helper" infringes our company's registered trademark. And guide users to download their files and constantly click on advertisements, causing terrible effects. We, therefore, hope you can swiftly take down panda-helper.org in google search and provide information about its owner panda-helper.org. | The Panda Helper logo and Panda Helper text are also protected under copyright law for our company. Reproducing these logos on the panda-helper.org website is a copyright infringement on its own. The designation "Panda Helper" infringes our company's registered trademark. And guide users to download their files and constantly click on advertisements, causing terrible effects. We, therefore, hope you can swiftly take down panda-helper.org in google search and provide information about its owner panda-helper.org. | Closed | software dynamic | none | Google LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0261 | infringement | African American Single Women's Advice book. | Advertising over Amazon.com, sale of both my hardback and Kindle editions of the book, and advertising of their old produced books (self-published with myself) and then sending me a royalty check years after the termination of our contract. And the tactic has been, since 2012, to say "limited availability, book out of print" all the while selling them - I've brought copies after our contract termination, per suggestion of an attorney sometime ago. And AuthorHouse has done this before, please see the case proceeding attached - sales of author book copies after the company and she terminated self-publishing contract. | I've suffered emotionally as well as reputationally as a writer. I have never had the ability to control this book, its sales, or its promotion exclusively since both of its releases. The big redux of the book was destroyed last year, as the AuthorHouse editions were still being sold and promoted via search engine online OVER my newer released edition(s). I am seeking whatever remedies are available to me, to mitigate the losses I have suffered since dealing with them since 2010. | Closed | Sonja D. Gracy | none | AuthorHouse | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0260 | infringement | Enhanced version of Pamela Coleman Smith's artwork on Tarot Cards | The infringing product being sold at the referenced online marketplace includes a tarot card product which incorporates the entirety of the subject registered copyrighted artwork. Additionally, the infringing tarot card product being sold at the referenced online marketplace contains an instructional booklet which was written by the author of the subject registered copyright. Finally, the packaging of the infringing product is similar in artwork and design as the subject copyright. | Claimant has suffered actual damages and lost profits as a result of Defendant's wrongful conduct and therefore seeks monetary relief in the amount of $30,000. | Certified | Siren Imports, LLC | Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP | VHNS LLC | Order to Submit Written Testimony |
| 22-CCB-0259 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Closed | Laughing Hyena Records | none | Malaco Records | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0258 | infringement-DMCA | live audio visual of myself speaking on health, wellness, diversity, african health, and ethnic women | These are the communications Ive had with Google support repeatedly and was never helped. Google Support 7/1/2021 You’re connected with agent Gabe. 9:28 AM G Thank you for reaching out to us. You're now chatting with Gabe. How are you? Gabe · 9:28 AM Fine I'm not able to access my account this is my 5th time requesting assistance Phrase deactivate my channel I'm no longer in business The business account should be closed 9:29 AM G Just to confirm, do you want to deactivate your YouTube channel? Gabe · 9:29 AM My main email is sedcredbone@gmail.com and my business email is ivysagarius@seanjaripreeti.com Yes 👍 Deactivate it 9:29 AM G Thanks for confirming. Let me check that for you. Gabe · 9:30 AM I don't have access to it 9:30 AM G May I have the channel URL, please? Gabe · 9:30 AM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iGdqDM3Eyas That's a video you just emailed me about For copywriter claim 9:30 AM G Thanks for that. I need to ask for the channel URL so that I can check your account. Gabe · 9:31 AM It's seanjaripreeti You just emailed me Hi Seanjari Preeti Womb Healing Real Yoni Pearls, After a manual review, a copyright owner has claimed some materi | My business has gone on a steady decline, my customers have had a hard time finding me since they were accustom to seeing me Every Sunday at 10AM for years. Google has avoided providing me with any income from ads that are ran from my channel. If a potential customer sees a video on youtube, the contact details are outdated so I never get that customer. The videos are still being viewed and when a customer can not find me or my website, they will find other business to patronize. My business has suffered, but I have suffered mentally from the strategic banning done by both Google and Youtube. I am asking that my content is given to me and removed from the platform. My Trademark and Logo is Also removed from the Platform. The Google Ads due to me are mailed to PO Box 65 Drayton SC 29333 and $30,000.00 for Mental Agony, Frustration, Constant denial of remedies and for antagonizing me daily. I lost customers, subscribers and business. | Closed | SEANJARI PREET WOMB HEALING | none | YOUTUBE/GOOGLE | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0257 | infringement | Logo of woman | Logo is being used without permission to promote and identify business. Facebook, Instagram and Wix have already reportedand removed content through DCMA. Physical place of business still displays signage and reports and business documents, brochures and business cards are still being distributed. | My intellectual property is being used to promote and generate revenue without my permission or compensation for the use of my copyrighted logo. | Closed | David Gunther | none | Arizona Breastnet, L.L.C. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0256 | -DMCA | NA | NA | This has caused me to lose views and lack of interest from viewers when they went to my website to see this content making me look like a fraud when this is posted when you click on to order by download this content: "The file has been removed as it violated our Terms of Service". This has caused me mental stress and am seeking $5,000 for emotional distress and potential money loss. | Closed | Ronald Savage | none | Troi Torain | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0255 | 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Certified | Steven Hirsch | Higbee & Associates | Southern Chinese Daily News, LLC | SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF STEVEN HIRSCH |
| 22-CCB-0254 | infringement | Four Photographs of The Residences at 66 High Street in Guilford, CT | See supplementary material | See supplementary material | Certified | Dennis Carbo | Higbee & Associates | Luchs Consulting Engineers, LLC | Scheduling Order for Written Testimony and Order Closing Discovery |
| 22-CCB-0253 | 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger | Closed | John Naschinski | Higbee & Associates | Circa Group, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0252 | infringement | The work represents a video of my interview of Mr. Jhon Jairo Velasquez (aka “Popeye”) that has been filmed for the purposes of the PhD thesis. | The infringing act occurred when the copy of record of the interview has been illegally obtained and modified by third parties without obtaining the permission of the author. To the best of my knowledge, the shooting team has illegally transferred the working materials to the third parties. Having the entire working copy of the video, the third parties replaced my image and voice with another person asking the same questions as in the original record. I shall underline that the interview questions have been prepared by myself only. Further, the infringement occurred when illegally modified video has been published on different channels online by means of the online service provider (YouTube and Google). In addition, I attract your attention to the fact that the infringement of YouTube is confirmed by the partial removal of infringing materials leaving the part of it publicly available. (Confirmation is attached) | Due to the illegal actions of the third parties that has altered and used the video materials indented to be used in the PhD work I had lost the opportunity to use these materials in my work and lost the funds that I have invested into having this interview recorded (including but not limited to travel expenses, production costs, etc.) as well as the loss of my time and efforts is unmeasurable. Moreover, due to my efforts to fight against this infringement, my personal data has been published by the infringing channel calling for public disgrace. I have received personal threats from the infringers using and making publicly available my work. As a relief sought I demand immediate stoppage of public availability of the materials fraudulently obtained and modified. | Closed | Catalina M Jaramillo | none | YouTube | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0251 | infringement | fairy silhouettes | Respondent created an identical product to our own using copyright artwork. We reached out to them in early 2021, then again throughout the year and through an attorney earlier this year. Respondent continues to sell the infringing product online on amazon.com as well as their own website. | Lost sales - we are seeking the maximum allowed under small claims. | Closed | Pinwheel Crafts LLC | none | Mary L. Petit | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0250 | infringement | This sound recording-music, lyrics, and arrangement. | Mr. Steven Elling has fraudulently registered copyrights on my previously copyrighted songs that were and continue to be registered in your database. He does not have any ownership or other rights to these songs. These are multiple offenses. Mr. Elling initiated copyright takedown claims on a variety of streaming platforms and music distribution platforms including but not limited to, Spotify, Itunes/Apple music ,Amazon Music, Pandora, You tube, and CD baby, to the detriment of my copyrighted music's promotion, marketing, Playlist inclusion, and direct streaming revenue, and Cd sales. Mr. Elling Posted has posted my songs fraudulently as his own on various online services. including but not necessarily limited to, Soundcloud website and music distribution service , and TAXI .com The Worlds leading A&R company, and quite possibly on other sites A fourth copyright infringement by Mr. Elling involves false copyright claims of ownership of my songs during the course of my live interview that involved The playing and promotion of my copyrighted music which resulted in the prohibition of the playing of my music, only subsequently rectified through my engagement of legal co | I have suffered lost streaming revenue, CD sales, and royalty interruption of my music from false copyright takedown claims by Mr. Elling with Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music/iTtunes, YouTube, and many other global distribution music platforms. Fraudulent copyrights filed on my music by Mr. Elling has also resulted in lost promotion and marketing opportunities for my music, including radio promotion events being interrupted by false copyright claims made by Mr. Elling. As a result of Mr. Elling's copyright infringements, the expenditure of significant time and money has been required of me. 1. I would like the fraudulent copyrights that Steven Elling registered of my works removed from the copyright catalog 2. I would like reimbursement for revenues lost for streaming and CD sales due to Mr. Elling's fraudulent copyright take down claims. 3. I would like reimbursement for expenses incurred to counter Mr. Elling's infringements. These expenses include $13,800 for studio recording and work-for-hire producer and musicians to avoid further copyright infringement from Mr. Elling. Other expenses include legal fees of $6,000-plus, to date. Expenses totaling $800-plus, | Closed | Mary Ann Palermo | none | Steven w Elling | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0249 | infringement-DMCA | Publication | The claim is regarding the publication "Monocyte distribution width (MDW) performance as an earlysepsis indicator in the emergency department: comparison with CRP and procalcitonin in a multicenterinternational European prospective study". Hausfater, P., Robert Boter, N., Morales Indiano, C. et al. Monocyte distribution width (MDW) performance as an early sepsis indicator in the emergency department: comparison with CRP and procalcitonin in a multicenter international European prospective study. Crit Care 25, 227 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-021-03622-5 I am filling this complaint for the reasons below: 1) The company removed my name from the manuscript as retaliation because I left the company 2) The authors have taken my work and claimed this is their work 3) They used my name in the acknowledgment section without my consent or giving me any chance to verify the contents of the manuscript 4) The manuscript contains some parts that are not true For the details, please see the attached files. There are four parties involved with the violation 1) Beckman Coulter, Inc, a US-based company and its representative Liliana Tejidor, 2) Pierre Hausfater, t | It is beyond imagination how stressful this is! I am a young researcher. Every work of mine is hard-earned, and it is very disappointing to see that these veteran researchers stole my work and claimed that this is their work. I tried to solve this in many ways. They either ignored me or pretended that it was very normal to steal someone’s work. It is their mercy whether I will get anything out of my hard work. I contacted the corresponding authors and the Beckman representative, Liliana Tejidor. Liliana Tejidor is not a corresponding author, but she is responsible for all decisions for this kind of project as a company representative. The corresponding author is nothing but a hired researcher only. I have been trying to resolve the issue since June 30, 2021. I reached out to the author, but they did not want to solve the issue. Then I reached out to the journal. The Journal asked them to solve the issue but showed them how to just include my name nominally without giving me proper credit for my work. According to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Journal guidelines, the journal must demonstrate neutrality which it failed to show. The editor appeared to have | Closed | Mohamad S Hasan | none | Liliana M Tejidor | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0248 | infringement | Web Article | The work titled "Are there Wolves in CT? [2022 Update]", found here https://connecticutentertainer.com/are-there-wolves-in-ct/, is a reworking of my original content. I researched and wrote the content on the original work here: https://connecticutexplorer.com/are-there-wolves-in-ct/ | Website traffic and income were lost. | Closed | Suzanne Bucknam | none | Ryan Ouellette | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0247 | infringement-DMCA | Glass ball filled with specific subject matter herbs based on metaphysical properties with a clay sculpted fairy inside | Copying work derivative as well as full harassment online creating waves of attacks to my website and emails because party publicly online harassed and created a mob mentality against me causing lack of sales and constant attacks. | Copying work derivative as well as full harassment online creating waves of attacks to my website and emails because party publicly online harassed and created a mob mentality against me causing lack of sales and constant attacks. This has caused severe diminished sales, anxiety and time wasted attempting to stop and block “followers” she has sent to crash my product and sales causing anxiety and stress with emotional insult. | Closed | Michelle A Milano | none | Eliza Davis | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0246 | infringement | Medical Device | Websites sell counterfeit products of my patented medical devices. These devices should be sold only in medical institutions after consultation with a doctor. In the description, misleading people about treatment and endangering patients' health. We have a German court order to suspend this website (pectushealing.com) in Germany and the European Union. | Reimbursement in the amount of $50,000 | Closed | Eckart Klobe | none | Pectushealing | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0245 | infringement | Explainer video | Say It Visually, Inc. d/b/a Fast Forward Stories (“FFS”) is the creator and owner of the copyrights in various “explainer” videos that it produces and licenses to its clients. Clients pay initial setup fees plus monthly subscription fees for access to various FFS videos, which FFS typically hosts for its subscribers on a commercial video-hosting platform. FFS protects its videos by providing video hosting, whereby visitors to a subscriber’s website have access only to a stream of the video, rather than a copy. Hosting is configured so that video source download is unavailable. FFS has recently discovered that the respondent has illegally made and posted copies of FFS property online, including at least the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuM6_JEmwuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko2HFBvCa9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHJVgkdsFAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXdoFKAxeAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6lI4-UvFs The creation, distribution and ongoing public availability of these videos violate our copyrights. Respondent has no right to make copies, ignoring the clear copyright statement visible on each video. Respondent has no license to distribute | Fast Forward Stories' business has been harmed by respondent's infringement in lost revenue, reduced market and substantially increased risk of additional infringement(s). Respondent could have availed themselves of the content by licensing directly from FFS — in fact, the CMI information on each video indicate clearly the Internet location where licensing could have been arranged. By electing to evade protections, copy, upload, display and make the work available for public performance, respondent deprived FFS of the modest fees respondent would have paid to license the content legally. For the span of time these illegal copies have been publicly available, FFS licensing and hosting fees for respondent would have ranged from $6,534 to $26,344, depending on the set of videos selected. The public display and ease of free public performance enabled by respondent's illegal posting of the videos on the dominant public video service (YouTube) also harmed FFS by reducing the market for commercial licensing. Potential licensees have turned down licensing and payment because "they could get the same thing on YouTube", depriving FFS of the opportunity to recoup its substantial inve | Certified | Say It Visually, Inc | none | America's Real Estate Brokers | Order to Submit Written Testimony |
| 22-CCB-0244 | -noninfringement | NA | NA | NA | Certified | Grand United Order of Oddfellows in American and Jurisdiction | Gavin Law Offices, PLC | Shawn O Cannon | Fifth Order Staying Proceedings |
| 22-CCB-0243 | infringement | photographs, text, instruction manual of Paracord Bracelet Kit | The infringer is selling an exact replica of our Paracord Bracelet Kit product and duplicated our instruction manual. They are using 28 registered photos as well as the actual coprighted text our our manual. | We have suffered lost sales due to an exact replica of our product being produced and sold on the same platforms we are selling on. We are requesting maximum relief allowable. | Closed | Pinwheel Crafts LLC | none | David Follet | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0242 | infringement | Photograph of Jacket | On or about April 1, 2022, Claimant photographed items from Respondent's 2022 collection. Respondent did not pay the invoice for the services or license fee and proceeded to widely reproduce, publish, and distribute copies of Claimant's works in its 2022 print Summer Brochure and on its website ninamclemore.com. On or about August 23, 2022 Claimant sent a formal demand to Respondent regarding the unauthorized use, however no payment was made and the works continued to be published online. On November 11, 2022 Claimant sent a final cease and desist notice to Respondent, which was also ignored. | $30,000 Claimant seeks an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed . | Closed | Cade Martin Photography, Inc. | Emilie Esther Pitts, PA | Nina McLemore, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0241 | infringement | Sound recording of music compositions and arrangements | Respondent performed the copyrighted musical work, synchronized to composite video of scenes from the motion picture A Clockwork Orange, as background music to respondent's audio commentary, which was not related in any way to the music being performed. | Loss of usual fees for licenses required for synchronization of the music composition/arrangement and master recording use for performance of the music in connection with the video displayed and performed on YouTube.com. Dilution of value of music. Usual licensing fees would be $15,000 per copyright or $30,000 total. However, Claimant would forego claim for damages if Respondent would agree to withdraw inappropriate DMCA Counter Notice filed with respect to this video with YouTube.com. | Closed | Serendip LLC | none | Qadr Calliens | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0240 | -DMCA | NA | NA | They uploaded my videos from views they make money also they copyright my 2 songs which I bought from the singer. and I have prove that I paid singer for those 2 songs for my movies. | Closed | Ali Orokzai | none | Afghan Smart | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0239 | infringement | An Ann Coulter speaking event at Cornell University that was disrupted by protestors. I was in attendance. I shot and edited the video. | Following my attendance at the Ann Coulter speaking event on Cornell campus, I uploaded the video I shot and edited onto my YouTube channel 'Ithaca Crime' (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt8Glm0_VaY7JfZe7EDQa4Q) at this URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvqZDJHrTA in the early morning of 10/10/22. Later on in the day on 11/10/22, I discovered Lucente had copied the entirety of my video and reuploaded it onto his on YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzA9ae7N3s0. | Traffic and views that would have drawn attention to my website and my work was diverted to Lucente's YouTube channel. I request that Lucente delete my content from his YouTube channel and cease any further use of my copyrighted works without my express written permission. | Closed | Zachary Winn | none | Rocco Lucente | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0238 | infringement | Photography timelapse video featuring 71 individual timelapse sequences highlighting the City of Chicago at night. | They used my video as their main hero banner on their website home page with their company slogan placed on top of it. They also cropped out my watermark used on the video in the lower right corner. They did this through embedding the video. My original video can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/225245092 | The App Shack, Inc. and it's agents improperly used my video for over 4 years on their website. You can see a detail of events of this incident at this web page here: https://www.maxwilsonphotography.com/copyright-violation-by-the-app-shack-wheaton-illinois/ Using my work in such a manner devalues it and makes it not as desirable to other potential local clients who may wish to license it properly for it's use. I originally sent them a very reasonable $4500.00 invoice for it's use, which equates to $100.00 a month. This is far below the regular retail license price of my video as seen on my licensing agency Nimia. Just one sequence of my video would license for $1000.00 a year for this type of use. They used the entire video containing 71 unique timelapse sequences. I was notified through email there would be no funds to pay me and that all the parties involved now work and run VistaSuite, another Wheaton, IL based tech company. They did make their website private a few days after I notified them of the unlawful use. Initial communications with them have met with negative results to pay my invoice. I am seeking $4500.00 from the respondents for the 4 year use of my video. | Closed | Max Wilson | none | The App Shack, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0237 | infringement | YouTube video documentary | videos were copied from my YouTube channel and shown on another channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMXCqQ-PGwUInJiIPnB9CPQ/ ) without permission. in the video the person is herd ( DAVID NEFF ) talking down about me as the creator and mocking to make fun off my content and encourage others to stop following my channel. both of my entire videos are used in the video. there are also multiple other people taking part in the slander and defamation of character. I would like a cease and desist order and if it is found that my content is used on this channel or any other channel with any legal or personal ties to the channel and its creators in question, i would like greater legal charges met. The Videos are currently removed due to filing copyright strike with YouTube, but David Neff is filing counter notification to claim his right to use my work freely with YouTube which he has no right. YouTube has given me 10 days to take action to keep videos removed. | I would like guarantee that David Neff and his partner creators can never use my content on this original channel or any new channels he creates out of spite or he will face criminal and legal charges. If possible an recorded apology on his main YouTube channel. | Closed | Marcellus Sabra | none | David Neff | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0236 | infringement | A series of workshop slides presented as part of my Say No Club group coaching program | Respondent's virtual workshop, Identifying and Fulfilling Your Needs for the Recovering People-Pleaser, included unauthorized use of my copyrighted works, including: Empowered Boundaries for the Recovering People-Pleaser; Braver Boundaries: Building Courage and Resiliency; and The Say No Club, Weeks 1, 2, and 4. This workshop was published on Eventbrite.com, hosted on Zoom, and included approximately 15 attendees. The respondent attended my workshops and courses from which the infringing material was sourced, and I have receipts to confirm this. Respondent refused to sign a cease and desist letter affirming that she would not cease and desist any and all further unlawful acts of copyright infringement, including reproduction, distribution, or performance of the copyrighted materials. | The respondent made approximately $700 in profit from repurposing my copyrighted works. (The workshop charged $50 per attendee and there were approximately 15 attendees). I am seeking 1) $700 in damages and 2) written confirmation, in the form of a signature upon my original cease and desist letter, that the respondent will not participate in any further unlawful acts of copyright infringement of these materials. | Closed | Hailey P Magee | none | Klara Kernig | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0235 | infringement | How to use LittleMum Back Massager | The respondent has been selling their products via Amazon in the USA since July 2022. Without our permission, the respondent uses our group of images in their user guide, and sends them to their customers. | The respondent has been selling their products via Amazon in the USA since July 2022. Without our permission, the respondent uses our group of images in their user guide, and sends them to their customers. The respondent is misleading Amazon users into thinking that their products are made by Littlemum Care. This misleading and deceptive conduct is destroying the reputation and brand name of Littlemum Care as the respondent's products are made by low quality material. We request the following: 1. the respondent immediately stops selling their products with their user guide that contains our images; 2. The respondent ensure that the above misleading conduct will not occur in the future; and 3. The respondent pays $30,000.00 as damages incurred from our loss of potential profit and damage done to our business reputation. | Closed | Raimy Financial Solutions Pty Ltd Trading as LittleMum Care | none | Valiance Media Llc | 22-CCB-0235 Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0234 | infringement-DMCA | Outlining the history and culture of Ireland | This is an automated blog which is stealing my literary work and posting it on their website. | This activity of stealing my website's content is hurting my search engine ranking potential. We would like to have the infringing content removed and the domain blocked from appearing on search engines like Google, Bing, etc. | Closed | Irelands, LLC. | none | OA Publishing London | Finding of Bad Faith and Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0233 | infringement | Video Podcast | The video was altered and reuploaded to the respondent's channel without our permission. Furthermore, the alterations were made to misrepresent and defame the authors. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z43iqz4INtKqFNaB3Q7JUapNAd0wEYal/view?usp=sharing | The video was uploaded immediately after the original video which created marketplace confusion and hurt the original video's message. | Closed | Starrcast LLC | none | Kevin Scampoli | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0232 | -DMCA-noninfringement | NA | NA | Emotional, Psychological. | Closed | David L Harper | none | Amazon | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0231 | infringement | comic | Distribution of my work and removal of my logo from pictures | The barrier to being able to be the sole owner of my work. | Closed | Vadim Shmatko | none | Mark Thorneer | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0230 | infringement | Videogame commentary | Jason Howard has been reuploading clips of my content on his channel without my permission. His video is a compilation of my content. | The reuploads directly compete with the marketability of the original as it is a compilation of my videos. | Closed | John W Baik | none | Jason Howard | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0229 | 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® 244: Jorge Masvidal vs. Nate Diaz mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on November 2, 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 Bushwhackers Bar & Grill LLC, Rhonda Arney and Scott Pearson (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Bushwhackers Bar & Grill located at 111 S. Main Street, Canton, SD 57013 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Rhonda Arney and Scott Pearson are individuals who res | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Bushwhackers Bar & Grill LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0228 | 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® 244: Jorge Masvidal vs. Nate Diaz mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on November 2, 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 Aspect LLC and Nasser Hammami (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Bar Nine located at 1405 Prairie Parkway, West Fargo, ND 58078 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Nasser Hammami is an individual who resides in the State of North Dakota and was a member, manag | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Aspect LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0227 | 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® 244: Jorge Masvidal vs. Nate Diaz mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on November 2, 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 Sunil G. Mahabir and Jillian Mahabir (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Sunny’s Pizza & Jillian’s Pub located at 6 King Square, Whitefield, NH 03598 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondents Sunil G. Mahabir and Jillian Mahabir are individuals who resides in the St | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Jillian Mahabir | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0226 | infringement | None given | SportsTrust used/displayed Claimant Spinelli's image of NFL player, Geno Atkins, on its commercial website to promote/market its sports agency business. | Statutory damages | Closed | Paul Spinelli | McCulloch Kleinman Law | SportsTrust Advisors, LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0225 | infringement-DMCA | Musical Short Film | The infringement occured when the work was publicly posted without written or verbal permission and also original author was not cited along with misrepresenting original author of the work. | Financial losses and also missed opportunity on worldwide platforms to be publically acknowledged for my work | Closed | renee moncada | none | Aubrey Williams | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0224 | infringement | None given | SportsTrust copied and displayed Claimant's images of NFL players on its commercial website for purposes of promoting/marketing its sports agency business. | Statutory damages | Closed | Scott Boehm | McCulloch Kleinman Law | SportsTrust Advisors, LLC | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0223 | infringement | Exterior Drone Photographs of Edgewater Lodge in Elgin, IL | Ronald Ewing of Re/Max Horizon Elgin knowingly infringed on my copyrights by stealing my local photos of the Edgewater Creekside Lodge in Elgin, IL from another listing agents published photos and posting them in his own listing. These photos contain my watermark. | I charge for my time and images to be used on listings. I sent multiple emails including invoices and a contract to invite his continued usage for this listing to Mr. Ewing. He ignored my messages and simply removed the infringing photos from MOST of the sites but not all. Due to the time spent trying to retrieve damages for his misuse and added to the bill of $500 I sent to settle the matter, I am asking for $2500 now for filing paperwork and attempts to collect damages so far. | Closed | Bobbi Rose Photography | none | Ronald Ewing | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0222 | infringement | A retelling of Oz, where things are more grown up and music, magick, and color are under siege and their world collides with ours in a case of sabatoge by a Death Witch | Copying, claiming ownership, distribution, alteration, etc. Even now after the work is for sale on both Amazon and Apple Books the passwords are being used to change the content and cover art, even changing the targeted age range down to young kids, as retaliation of me calling Social Services on all three’s negligence of the three small kids/grandkids last year. | Harassment, distraction, changes to potential sales and missed deadlines. Income potential, and ad and promotional delays, resulting in economic impact. | Closed | Michael L McBride | none | Leann M Thompson | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0221 | infringement | Portrait of Chef in restaurant | The image is used on a public facing commercial website without authorization or valid license. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | THE LITTLE DOOR CORP | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0220 | infringement | The sound recording and underlying composition "The Sting of Loss" by Kerry Muzzey | - Smuin Ballet used my work “The Sting of Loss” in their choreographed and performed dance work “Loss” for 5 filmed and streamed performances in February 11-15, 2021. No synchronization rights were obtained for the synchronization of the music to the film which was used for the live-streaming of the performance on each of the 5 occasions. Smuin did not obtain grand rights licenses for the dramatization of this work, and they did not obtain master recording licenses for the use of the sound recording. Additionally, they did not obtain public performance rights for the performances or the web streaming uses of the filmed work. - Grand rights are required here as the dance work "Loss" used my music "The Sting of Loss" to convey a dramatic narrative. Per Smuin Ballet's own description: " ... we revisit "LOSS", Cassidy Isaacson'y emotional solo created for Lauren Pschirrer earlier this year, which she described as a way to express grief when you don't know how to do it in words.... For Lauren, the creative process meant revisiting the experience of loss and feeling those emotions all over again. She recalled that it was uncomfortable at first, but using that emotion and putting it int | 1) I did not receive license fees for these commercial uses of my work. 2) Smuin Ballet used my work to generate income for itself: admission fees, donations, and direct sponsorships from patrons. 3) for a composer, being able to tout and publicize the use of his work by a ballet company is a feather in his cap: it's validation of one's work. Smuin deprived me of the ability to publicize my involvement with this work and with their company, which is a known dance company in the world of contemporary ballet. The normal penalty for unlicensed music use in the world of music publishing and master recordings is a 3x-10x fee penalty per infringing use. I initially proposed a 3x penalty of my normal fees for live performance/grand rights use and *no penalty multiplier* for the year-long use of the filmed performance on Smuin's website and social media sites. That total fee was $7000. Smuin rejected it saying they normally paid between $50 - $1500 for music use - which only confirmed my suspicion that Smuin is well aware of its legal obligation to license its music, and in this case, chose not to. This is a willful infringement. I now seek the following fees inclusive of penalti | Closed | Kirbyko Music LLC | none | Smuin Ballet | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0219 | infringement | Color photograph of a couple walking down a path in a park | The image is used on a commercial website without authorization or valid license. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | Hakimian Global LLC | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0218 | infringement | Photograph | The Trump Organization copied and posted Mr. Vanasco's copyrighted photographs to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Vanasco. | Mr. Vanasco is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Vanasco charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. The Trump Organization failed to properly license Mr. Vanasco's copyrighted photograph. Mr. Vanasco is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue, as well as attributable profits by The Trump Organization. | Closed | Stephen C. Vanasco | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | The Trump Organization | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0217 | infringement | Photograph | Ms. Stanfield is a commercial photographer and writer, who operates the website, www.thetasteedit.com, which contains articles on places around the world where Ms. Stanfield has visited and eaten. Mr. Trent copied Ms. Stanfield's copyrighted photograph originally posted to www.thetasteedit.com, and posted it to his commercial website, www.trentluxury.com, in order to advertise the real property located at 14031 Aubrey Road, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. | Ms. Stanfield is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of her copyrighted photographs. Ms. Stanfield charges license fees for the proper use of her copyrighted photographs. Mr. Trent failed to properly license Ms. Stanfield's copyrighted photograph. Ms. Stanfield is due the cost of a proper license for the image at issue, as well as attributable profits by Mr. Trent. | Closed | Sarah Stanfield | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Morgan Trent | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0216 | infringement | Voiceover and video | Joshua Peterson aka LouiKey is pirating material from DJMeechyMeech LLC and reuploading to his youtube channel for financial gain. Joshua Peterson has been informed many times to stop reuploading my work to youtube. But user refuses. | User is stealing viewership from my channel. Users dont need to watch content on my channel if the user is just going to steal my work and reupload it to his channel. This is costing me thousands of dollars per month. Joshua Peterson needs to pay DJMeechyMeech LLC $1000 usd dollars per video. User currently has 3 videos on his channel with my work. | Closed | djmeechymeech LLC | none | Joshua Peterson | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0215 | infringement | Photo of Butterfly Boots | Willful and repeated infringement of Claimant's copyrighted materials. The Claimant sent multiple notices to the Respondent and/or Respondent web host (i.e., Shopify) in an effort to amicably resolve the issue and stop the infringing activities. However, the Respondent has repetitively disregarded the notices and continues to infringe Claimant's rights. The first notice was sent to Respondent's web host on December 202; a second notice was sent to Respondent on January 2022; a third notice was sent to the Respondent's web host on May 2022). | Lost sales and profits | Closed | Dolls Kill, Inc. | none | BMEssentials | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0214 | infringement | Wood Display with shelves and pegs to hold rings | I own an etsy shop. The item that is being infringed upon is my own work that I sell on etsy. The respondent copied my photos and description and added it to her own etsy shop to sell as her own handmade item. Once she got a sale for the item in her shop she would buy it from my shop using a suspected stolen credit card. And then have me ship it directly to their buyer. I do not sell this item for resale. | They are selling the item in their shop and I can tell when I get an order that look suspicious - so I do not fulfill that order. I do not want to help this person in any way create fraud. Or to steal from someone else. They are misrepresenting me and my business. They have stolen my photos and my words and it makes me look bad when she can not supply the product that was ordered from her shop. | Closed | Megan Jelken | none | Jade Overend | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0213 | infringement-DMCA-noninfringement | ALL MUSICAL ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ATMOSPHERE CREATIONING | ALL DIGITAL ART & N CREATIONS FAIR CLAIM ROYALTIES FAMILIES MACHIN | MY MUSIC / ALL DIGITAL ARTS FROM LICENSEES COLLECTION DIGITAL ARTS AND VALUES THE INFRINGMENT PAY MECHANICAL ROYALTIES AND ALL OTHERS DUE TO NATURE PROCEEDINGS of machinery / ALL ACTS + 609 FAIR CREDIT ACT | Closed | RATIAGE J SMITH | none | RATIAGE / THREE ARTS & ALL ENTERTAINMENT | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0212 | infringement | fairy silhouettes | The respondent created an exact replica of our product, including (and using) the same fairy silhouettes. The respondent has been aware of this as far back as January 2021 (possibly earlier), as we have contacted them previously regarding a design patent infringement. | The exact loss is unknown, and best guess would be $250,000-$500,000 of lost revenue. We are seeking the maximum relief allowed by the Copyright Small Claims Board of $30,000. | Closed | Pinwheel Crafts LLC | none | Tsoi Cheung Ching | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0211 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption | Not available | See caption | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0210 | infringement | vocals | video | Loss of potential income and for relief that my work will not be infringed anymore | Closed | shawn Brown | none | Florian E Simoes | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0209 | infringement | Sculpture | This person has copied my sculpture in picture form and published it online via Facebook, Instagram, his band's Website, etc. And in physical form in a published book of his "original" drawings and also printed on tour t-shirts, his album cover and other merchandise he sells for his band. | As a visual artist the is a despicable act, as a musical artist, on his end to blantantly copy my original sculpture that was highly publicized internationally via various art press sources and to refer to it as his "original" drawing. I have no way to explain the hurt and disgust this, as an artist, makes me feel. | Closed | Anastasia Pelias | none | Anthony L Neighbors | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0208 | infringement | Halloween digital art | Claimants design is being resold as original artwork with no changes made to the original design. The design being stolen is an exact copy. | Claimant has had to use up their time, money, and resources to argue this case. This act puts the original artist’s reputation at risk. | Closed | Katie A Altice | none | Chris Barton | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0207 | infringement | YouTube video | “Oddheader” is a gaming YouTube channel created by Randall Rigdon Jr. (“Randall”) in 2018, who produces the videos with Cassandra Lipp (“Cassandra”) and a third collaborator who goes by the pseudonym of “Slippy Slides” online. The Oddheader channel, as of this writing, has 770,000 subscribers and has been featured in a number of online entertainment press outlets such as Kotaku and NME for being the first to document and solve exclusive mysteries and discoveries in video games. The type of content in each of the original works produced by the Oddheader team involves hundreds of hours of labor spent doing numerous things such as talking to developers for the first time to get exclusive information about mysteries in games, modifying video game code to uncover never-before-seen details, and creatively composing and narrating scripted original works for publication. Every original work features new content from the subject video game that has never been published before Oddheader’s publication of the work, usually as a product of extensive research, composition, scripting, and edited material. On September 21, 2022, Slippy Slides informed Randall and Cassandra in a private Disc | Appleby’s video “20 CREEPIEST Secrets in Kid Games,” uploaded on his T5G YouTube channel was a clear copying of the popular YouTube video series “Shocking Easter Eggs In Kids Games” from the YouTube channel Oddheader and used original work from 8 different videos produced for and by the Oddheader channel. At no time was Appleby/T5G given any authorization, license, or permission from Oddheader for use of any Oddheader content which comprised the majority of T5G’s video without any attribution to the infringed work. Doing so caused numerous damages to Oddheader and to the Oddheader brand. Appleby’s unauthorized use of the materials produced by the Oddheader channel was designed to intentionally misled his audience into thinking the original material was his own and to confuse the marketplace. It was an attempt to move traffic away from the Oddheader channel and to his own channel, T5G, using unauthorized, original, creative material originally produced by and for the Oddheader channel. Appleby’s unauthorized use passes off hundreds of hours of labor and creative research from the Oddheader channel as his own for commercial monetary gains. Appleby’s video garnered a million | Closed | Randall W Rigdon, Jr | none | Thomas Appleby | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0206 | infringement | A Personal Photo Of Myself | This person is utilizing a picture that was stolen from my employer's website without my expressed written consent. He also refuses to ask for permission like a normal human being and has stated his plans to continue infringing on my registered copyright | I haven't suffered any harm. The relief I am seeking is for the respondent to cease using my registered, copywritten material on his YouTube channel and any other social media accounts without my permission | Closed | Anthony Okafor | none | Gerald Palmer | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0205 | infringement | Sound Recording, Production, Musical Performance,Musical Arrangement | "I'll Be There Tonight" was released without a recording contract with Laurie Records (Respondent Julie Ann Schwartz) for Recording Artist Leslie Fradkin PKA "The Global Gonks". The subject SR (Sound Recording-Legal Owner: Leslie M Fradkin) was stolen from the Demo Recording of the Legal and Beneficial Owner (Leslie Fradkin, now dba RRO Entertainment), and the Composition "I'll Be There Tonight" was stolen from Legal and Beneficial Owner and claimant Leslie M Fradkin. Copyright on Composition subsequently sold to Respondent Spirit Music Group. SR subsequently sold to Respondents EMI/Capitol, then UMG, and Shami Music Group. respectively. mInfringement is still ongoing Online. | SR and Composition contains a valuable commercial performance from original members of the Baroque Pop group The Left Banke. Song and recording was originally created as a demo in 1972 and the Sound recording was completed and released Worldwide by RRO Entertainment (Leslie Fradkin, Owner and Member) on June 6, 2022. Stolen demo recording, never intended for public broadcast or display or distribution, unfairly competes with RRO Official Release. Relief requested-return of stolen SR, Composition and damages awarded to Claimant of $30,000. | Closed | Leslie M Fradkin | none | EMI / Capitol Records | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim Against EMI / Capitol Records |
| 22-CCB-0204 | infringement | My copyright work has titled: 5 Healthiest Fruit Choices for Diabetes (or translated in Chinese: 5種糖尿病最健康的水果選擇). My copyright work is primarily contains the original script created by myself in full Chinese text format. The script introduced five types of healthiest fruit choices that diabetes people can choose for. The script was created by myself with the purpose of incorporating it into my YouTube video, together with my own recorded voice of reading the copyright script as the narration in the video. The copyright work or the script was eventually compiled into narration in my final video and the video was first published on my YouTube channel on December 31, 2021 with the Chinese title name 糖尿病健康水果：5種糖尿病最健康的水果選擇. My copyright work registration was submitted to the US Copyright Office on Oct 11, 2022 and currently pending for application with a reference number 111813825221. | The infringement activity was occurred when the Respondent and the Infringer, who I neither know or meet him at anywhere nor any relationship with him, uploaded an infringing video to URL at issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5g7gxDC64 on August 18, 2022 with a video title name in Chinese wordings “水果是糖尿病人的禁忌？大錯特錯！醫生提醒這5種可以放心吃，血糖絕對不會升高！趕緊轉發告訴家裏人 |三味書屋”. The infringement activity committed by the Respondent and the Infringer was occurred without my awareness, permission and consent at the beginning. I was only able to discover the infringement activity in the early of October 2022 when I watched the video at issue online. What I had discovered from the infringing video at issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5g7gxDC64 was that the Respondent and the Infringer substantially plagiarize my copyright work with exact character-by-character and sequence-by-squence, and replicated them into the infringing video’s playback timestamp between 1:58 minutes until 11:29 minutes without seeking my permission and consent by any means. As the author and the Claimant of the copyright work, I had responded to the infringement activity by submitting a copyright claim request to the online conte | The Respondent’s wrongful activity has caused suffers to the Claimant in term of: 1) My channel brand name is being tainted when the Respondent unilaterally stressed that the infringing video uploaded by him would benefit my channel from his wrongful activity in term of subscriber, view, market exposure share and profit, as per mentioned in his counter notification statement, 2) My personal credibility is being tainted when the Respondent claimed that I mistakenly reported him for the infringement, while in fact, the Respondent admitted his own wrongful activity in his counter notification to YouTube, 3) Loss of work productivity due to time and energy consumed in tackling the infringement, 4) Body harm due to a week long of sleep-less nights to deal with the infringement, 5) Mind and brain stress caused by the infringement disturbance, 6) Loss of appetite and minor gastrointestinal problem caused by the infringement disturbance. For all these reasons and harms suffered to me, as the author and the Claimant, I decided to file this infringement claim to the US Copyright Claim Board to seek for: 1) Restrain the allegedly infringement from being reinstated on YouTube, 2) R | Closed | Kam Yoong Wong | none | 宇杰 刘 | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0203 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Orenton Hill | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0202 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of counterfeit reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's free | Closed | Amy Do | none | Jerome Zilton | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0201 | infringement | An audiovisual work concerning the evidence found during an underwater search of a reservoir where a deceased missing person and their car were discovered. Additional coverage concerning a discussion of the evidence and the steps taken to obtain it. It is a work of public interest that provides newsworthy information about this missing person case. The work is posted on YouTube and includes a watermarked copyright notice as well as a notice within the comments. | On information and belief, Respondents posted an audio visual work that contained in its entirety the Claimant's subject work. Additionally, Claimant's work was reproduced by Respondents in the same form as that published by Claimant. Therefore, the Claimant's work appears to have been directly copied and included within Respondent's work. The infringed material can be found, on information and belief, beginning at the six minute and 30 second mark of the Respondent's video and concluding at the sixteenth minute and 30 second mark. The Respondent's infringing work has been taken down by YouTube and can no longer be viewed at this time based on notice given by Claimant of its infringing nature and Claimant's rights in copyright. However, save for this Claim, the Respondent's work is likely to be re-posted as early as the 14th of September, 2022. The Claimant's video and thus the infringed work can be found on YouTube at the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjYNfrb5NJs. Claimant broadly disclosed notice of copyright with the work. Additionally, Claimant filed for copyright registration within a day of publication. | Claimant is and has been establishing an ever-growing YouTube channel which reports on and investigates matters of public interest. The current subscriber base is over 16,000 members and the posted videos receive generally thousands to tens of thousands of views with many comments by interested viewers. The Claimant, through this channel, is furthering a market for a certain type of in-depth, detailed, and personal news gathering and distribution of newsworthy events that are not typically known through typical news outlets. Respondent competes in a similar type of market and through infringement of Claimant's works has furthered Respondent's YouTube video channel at the diminished and expense of Claimant's YouTube video channel. Claimant receives revenues from its channel generally through the number of subscribers, views and through paid membership. Respondent, on information and belief, similarly, receives revenues generally based on the number of subscribers and views. As a result, Claimant submits that Claimant has lost revenues through the infringement of Claimant's work while Respondent has profited from it. Thus, these are commercial enterprises. Claimant seeks dama | Closed | Checkit TV | Cantor Law PLLC | An All American Cartel LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0200 | infringement | A fictional retelling of the land of Oz and its witches | They have taken the work distributed on their own devices and try to claim it as their own, including artwork that was not included in the original copyright, and the updated one also artwork I’ve been collecting and making as mock ups for a potential optioning for televised broadcast at a later date. My personal background as a writer and producer, editor and visual effects artist in the industry of entertainment, television, and film with Nickelodeon Studios in universal studios, has prepared me for this type of a fantasy novel, and I have potentially got plenty of character witnesses that I’ve not only worked with collaborated with in the past they can attest to this, including my own work and résumé. | In addition to just medical and psychological well-being, these ongoing distractions, literally for the last five years on a daily basis, but more recently attacking my actual work, that has complicated my life (I’m disabled and live with my 71 year old mom), caused me to lose sleep, reputation, security, and stagnate the work, not to mention having to spend a duplicate amount of money on additional copyright updates since I had originally registered the work before I completed it, after the recommendation during a phone call with one of the nice librarians there. This is also cutting into my time- I could’ve been using my spare time for promotion, advertising and marketing etc. since the book is now available from Amazon and for pre-order on Apple Books store. | Closed | Michael L McBride | none | Emily Thompson | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0199 | -DMCA | NA | NA | My artwork is registered by the United States Copyright Office. They are selling stickers of my copyrighted artwork without license or authorization. They are directly interfering with and competing with me by selling my own artwork in their Amazon Store, especially because I also sell this design as a sticker in my Etsy store. | Closed | Rebecca Wang | none | Amazon.com | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0198 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Selling stickers of my Copyrighted Artwork without authorization or license. They are literally taking money from me, as I sell this exact design as a sticker in my own Etsy and RedBubble stores. | Closed | Rebecca Wang | none | Amazon | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0197 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Our Original Photos that were stolen are on our Stocking Factory, LLC website at this location https://stockingfactory.com/collections/christmas-stockings/products/knitted-christmas-stockings-red-ivory-3435 The photos are in registration process with Copyright office, case ID 1-11800819371 The Respondent displaying our photos and offering discounts of 30% or 40% on item on ETSY Marketplace that is infringing caused us harm of at least $2,000 | Closed | Stocking Factory, LLC | none | Nikolai Carter | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0196 | infringement | This was a product review video I created for my Youtube channel as well as for my Amazon store. It is a setup and review video about the Epson ecotank printer. The respondant stole it and placed it on his channel among other works stollen. | The video was on Amazon that I uploaded as an influencer video. The respondent stole the video and placed it on his YouTube channel in order to profit from it among every other video on their channel. I filed a copyright claim and Youtube took the video down but the respondent countered using the loophole claiming it was his which now requires me to file a copyright case in order for Youtube to keep it removed. | The harm is that the respondent stole and reproduced my work stealing views and potential commissions I would have earned otherwise. I am seeking for the end of using any of my videos. | Closed | Jakob S Waters | none | Yuri Sametoman | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0195 | infringement | Amazon Influencer video stolen and is being used on a foreign entity's YouTube channel, where they are profiting from my work. | I'm an Amazon Influencer and produced a video, all of my own, using my own voice, my own images, on January 31, 2022. Here is the link to my video produced on Amazon, January 31, 2022. https://www.amazon.com/vdp/0fb91b1fc19841e19efc49fe3af5bcf3. The other party, from Vietnam, stole my video, uploaded my video completely unedited, without permission, without any changes, to their YouTube channel, at a later date. The following, is what they stated to YouTube, upon receiving my copyright strike. "I filed a YouTube Copyright Strike against the other party. Now, the other party is stating they have full usage rights. Please see the following, as it is their quote to YouTube. Hi Youtube Team, I know you are very busy but I have to send this complaint to you, because I have contacted the copyright reporter many times with no response. So I have to file a complaint here. I was sad and worried when I received the copyright warning. I would like to confirm that this Dog Back Seat Cover Protector Waterproof Scratchproof Nonslip Hammock Review is my video created by me, I believe it is your fault because this video was filmed by me, on my computer I still keep the original video. I | My YouTube channel and Amazon Influencer sites are both at risk, due to their slanderous claims that my video belongs to them. My YouTube channel is https://www.YouTube.com/c/YetisPlace. My Amazon Influencer, is https://www.amazon.com/shop/yetisplace. I have evidence in my Amazon Influencer affiliate back office, that this content is indeed mine. Here is my specific video they stole. https://www.amazon.com/vdp/0fb91b1fc19841e19efc49fe3af5bcf3 They do not have evidence that this belongs to them. They are not American, they do not speak with an American accent. They feel they can simply go online to another website and steal the content, then proceed to upload it to their YouTube channel, provide their own links to Alibaba, Amazon and other sites where they be paid, based off another party's work. I need to submit this on behalf of the countersuit for my YouTube copyright claim. | Closed | Heidi Churas | none | Sema Dopavi | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0194 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Melody Gazendam | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0193 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Sharon Bickford | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0192 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | ANDRE WILLIAMS | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0191 | infringement | My PhD dissertation | In the TCAD paper title "SF-SGL: Solver-Free Spectral Graph Learning from Linear Measurements", its section III A "Gradient Estimation via Perturbation Analysis", section III "Theorem III.1", section III D "Key Steps in the SGL Algorithm" are all directly copied from the chapter 4 of my PhD dissertation (https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/1160/) | They copied my PhD dissertation. My dissertation is my hard work during my PhD study. I paid a lot of effort to do the research, develop the method and write the dissertation. | Closed | Yongyu Wang | none | Zhuo Feng | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0190 | -DMCA | NA | NA | The listing has been re-activated due to the false counter notice filed, profit will be made off of my design illegally without license or my permission, potentially harming my sales, and it will cause confusion among the public and potential customers regarding the true origin of the design. It may cause potential customers to believe that Venuston owns and created that design when they definitely do not. The listing can be seen here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1267213422/electric-flying-elf-wings-moth-wings?click_key=23c35769c416ae8e6d5228e2780953cb86398625%3A1267213422&click_sum=676ed3e9&ga_search_query=wings&ref=shop_items_search_1 | Closed | Angela M Jarman | none | Weiwei Xin | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0189 | infringement | HipHop song rhyming the lyrics and spelling out the words of the Chorus K-I-s-s-I-n-g with a long sing on the 5th letter | The chorus of this song is a duplicate of my chorus Spelling out the 7 letter word ‘Kissing’ https://music.apple.com/us/album/just-relax/1638216655 and dragging (Long Sing) the 5th letter ‘I’ in kissing and finishing up with the last two letters. It’s so bad that they took a 5 letter word and turned it into a 7 letter word by repeating the 1st two letters twice just so that it has 7 letters and then they also dragged out (Long Sing) the 5th letter in the word ‘e’ closing it out with the last two letters. https://youtu.be/j5uAR9w7LBg It’s basically the potatoes of the song giving it a unusual one two punch to captivate the audience. The same 7 letters, The same Dragged out 5th letter, The Same genre of music | Although copywriten in 2012. This song ‘Kissing’ hasn’t been placed on major outlets (Spotify, itunes etc.) until 2022. The same year ‘Super Freaky Girl’ came out using my ‘hook’ and doing very well. The 30k in damages seeked are not close to how much is being made off my ‘hook’ right now including all types of awards and nomination for best song of the summer. I’m looking for the max CCB settlement of 30k | Closed | ALKASHIF M Marshall | none | Niki Minaj/Cash Money | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0188 | infringement | Design to create a Advent Calendar using 3mm or 1/8th material | Ben Astle is selling my design as his own. I also have proof of when he purchased the design from me. In the purchase it is stated that he may not sell or distribute the design only use it to make the actual item. | People are buying the design from him costing me sales. | Closed | Chad E Robertson | none | Benjamin Astle | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0187 | infringement | Photograph of a woman's face | The image is used without authorization or valid license. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | Wild Sky Media - dba / mamaslatinas.com | 22-CCB-0187 Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0186 | infringement | This is a compilation video of my UFO experiences over the last three years that I shared on the Global Peace Tribe webcast and on my YouTube channel John Martin UFO and ET Intelligences | 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 was @ the 11 minute mark for 46 seconds. They have taken out my section after my complaint to them, but only after 1.7 million viewers had seen their handiwork: https://youtu.be/CVjC1wfovz0 Sam Gorski put on his tiny sunglasses and did his best Dr. Evil laugh while he and his compatriots proceeding to ridicule my work from their hatchet job of taking tiny snippets of my videos completely out of context, while ignored anything that did not fit their debunking narrative. They purposely ignored the nearly twenty minutes of compelling evidence presented in my original 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. The video had over 1.17 million views before they wrote to me in an incredibly condescending way and eventually took my segment down with no apology, but rather with the same arrogance they displayed on the offending video. T | The reckless and vicious comments and cherry picking of tiny segments of my original work have been devastating to me personally and has caused grave damage to my name and my YouTube channel. They used this work without permission and did not have the basic courtesy of even notifying me that they would be ridiculing my work to potentially all their millions of subscribers. I have a book that I am releasing in the next few weeks, The Universe Loves You. This disparaging of my work to potential buyers of my book has been devastating to me personally and financially. I feel compensatory damages of $30,000 is appropriate in this case. Submitted this day, October 03, 2022 John Martin | Closed | John Martin | none | Sam Gorski | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0185 | infringement | A shipping crate for the use with toy dolls toy box | Reproducing my registered design and copies of my original design | I designed this crate for use with toy dolls this person has copied my work and Selling the work which is having a negative impact on my sales | Closed | Linda Beam | none | Kirk Depauw | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0184 | infringement | A photograph taken of Personalized Christmas Stockings published on our website | On Sept 26, 2022 we have filed an infringement DMCA notice against 2 sellers on Etsy who illegally copied and used our photographs in the product listing for sale on Etsy. Etsy advised us that one of the infringers filed a counter-notice and in order to prevent the infringer from using our photo, a court action needs to be initiated within 10 days. Etsy provided us with the infringer's contact details, whom we have designated as a responder. In the document section, I am providing a screenshot of the listing by the infringner, the document name is: screencapture-etsy-listing-1289038730-personalized-knitted-christmas-stockings-2022-09-26-10_13_24.pdf the listing on Etsy is https://www.etsy.com/listing/1289038730 it currently shows unavailable as Etsy took it down In the document section I am enclosing a PDF of our Etsy takedown action and a PDF of Etsy response that the infringer filed a counter notice. | The infringer is copying our for sale listing on Etsy, including the photographs and selling the same listing at a significantly lower price using our photographs, effectively reducing our sales. We have suffered at least $2,000 damages as our sales on our item significantly decreased as Etsy customers think they are purchasing our item from the infringer at a reduced price. | Closed | Stocking Factory, LLC | none | Andrea Hutchens | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0183 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Tom Schirmacher is a fashion and beauty photographer who licenses his work to major brands. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder an original beauty image. Respondent is the owner and operator of the Instagram @thealloramedspa and a Facebook page for Allora Medical Spa, which are both social media pages that promote and advertisesthe Respondent’s spa business. On or about May 2022, Claimant discovered his photograph being displayed on Respondent's Instagam page and Respondent’s Facebook page in promotion of its services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Certified | Tom Schirmacher | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Allora Medical Spa | Notice of Proposed Default Determination |
| 22-CCB-0182 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Tom Schirmacher is a fashion and beauty photographer who licenses his work to major brands. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder an original beauty image. Respondent is the owner and operator of the Instagram @bellisimospa_lasercenter which is a social media page that promotes and advertises the Respondent’s spa business. On or about April 2022, Claimant discovered his photograph being displayed on Respondent's Instagam page in promotion of its services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Tom Schirmacher | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Bellisimo European Day Spa, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0181 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Florian Sommet is a commercial photographer who shoots ads for major brands. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to three cosmetics photographs. Respondent is the owner and operator of the Instagram @bellisimospa_lasercenter which is a social media page that promotes and advertises the Respondent’s spa business. On or about April 2022, Claimant discovered that their photographs were being displayed on Respondent's Instagam page in promotion of its services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Florian Sommet | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Bellisimo European Day Spa, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0180 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Mark Johnson is a professional photographer, specializing in outdoor on-location photography. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to an aerial image of Honolulu at dusk. Respondent is operator of the website a yelp page which he uses to promote his real estate business and endeavors. On or about May 2020, Claimant discovered that their photograph was being displayed on Respondent's yelp page, directly promoting Respondent’s business. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Mark A Johnson | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Richard DeGutis | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0179 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Ali Smith is a portrait and documentary photographer based in New York City. Claimant is the creator and sole rights holder to an image of actors Jemima Kirke and Alex Cameron. Respondent is the owner and operator of the website https://www.nextmanagement.com/ which is a website that advertises and promotes the Respondent’s model management business. On or about May 2022, Claimant discovered that their photograph was being displayed on Respondent's website in a post directly promoting it’s model booking services. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Ali Smith | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Next Management LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0178 | infringement | Computer program and audiovisual material, including level design, 3D models, texture images. | The Infringing Content is displayed on competitor server Summit Cinema ("Summit"), owned by a Mr. Connor McKelvey (“McKelvey”), an individual who formerly contributed to the Work pursuant to a work-for-hire agreement (“Agreement”) with Copyright Owner and is no longer employed under the Agreement. During his contracted work, McKelvey maintained a positive relationship with Copyright Owner, which quickly deteriorated after McKelvey left Copyright Owner to launch his competing server Summit. Summit contains significant and substantial portions of the Work, and McKelvey failed to obtain consent from Copyright Owner prior to uploading the Infringing Content. We have strong evidence showing that McKelvey is willfully and purposefully copying the Work in order to attract users away from Swamp and towards Summit. Furthermore, we have abundant evidence showing that McKelvey’s infringement of the Work is not only willful, but done as part of a malicious, hostile, and unprovoked campaign of harassment, defamation, and doxing targeting the Copyright Owner. | Lost licensing fees; lost profits; dilution of value/licensing fee; and tarnishment of Claimant's work. Claimant is seeking $30,000.00 in damages for the infringement. | Certified | Swamp Servers LLC d/b/a Swamp Servers | Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC | Connor McKelvey | First Default Notice |
| 22-CCB-0177 | infringement | My artistic creation, content, materials, video footage and name for documentary film that examines wrongful conviction cases in America. | Your Honor, Thank you so much for the opportunity to present this matter before the CCB. Please find below a brief background of the issue: In March of 2015, I hired Mark Saxenmeyer of The Reporters Inc. a Minneapolis-based media production agency to assist with fundraising and perform certain production work for completion of my documentary film series titled: The Innocent Convicts. A fundraising contract and Project Assistance Area Agreement(see attached please) were drafted by The Reporters Inc. Executive Director, Mark Saxenmeyer which expressly provides ownership of all videos created for The Innocent Convicts project belong to me and my studio-Mankind Pictures. I paid the sum of $250 out of $500 which was due as project initiation fee as stated in that agreement. Although I initially titled the Project Tim Cole, The Innocent Man, I renamed it The Innocent Convicts in 2015 due to the need to include more stories to the Film project. I started with filming the story of Tim Cole in Texas and three years later, we had completed production of six stories that happened in five different cities with a timeline of completion set for 2016/17. The project was not completed a | I have made multiple request for the raw and completed copies of the videos in the possession of Mark Saxenmeyer and The Reporters Inc., and they have refused to provide the videos to me. I also requested a detailed breakdown of funds raised as well as Expenditure report and all materials related to the film. Mark Saxenmeyer has seized the raw and final work product of The Innocent Convicts film unlawfully and has refused to provide accounting for the money raise for this project which is a breach of our agreement. Mark Saxenmeyer has continued to distribute The Innocent Convicts film online and at educational institutions without my permission, and has continued to profit from my work without my consent. See attached letters on behalf of the Reporters Inc. to me and vice versa please. Also attached are the Agenda and Minutes of the Reporters Inc. Board Meeting in 2016, and Email indicating title name change.. Only towards the third quarter of last year we heard from Mark's lawyer after l contacted another attorney based in Minneapolis to reach out to him. On the Reporters Inc. website, they removed my film about Tim Cole and renamed my other 5 films "Guilty Until Proven Inn | Closed | Osagie Okoruwa | none | Mark Saxenmeyer | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0176 | infringement | Website text and headings | KidsVelo Bikes directly copied large paragraphs of our website text without our consent. | KidsVelo bikes plagiarized our unique content, this is bad for google rankings and therefore bad for our online sales. They copied the text from our page https://www.littlebigbikes.com/balance-bikes-guide/ including headings and paragraph text. | Closed | Simon Evans | none | Kidvelo Bikes | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0175 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption | Not available | See caption | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0174 | infringement-DMCA | None given | The infringers copies the right owner's work and used it to sell their products on Amazon.com | The right owner suffered economic loss in reduced sales from the alleged infringing activities. The right owner is seeking (i) an injunctive relief that the infringer cease and desist their infringing activities, (ii) compensatory damages against all three infringers and (iii) statutory damages against the three infringers, jointly and severally up to the statutory limit of this Board. | Closed | Yi Wu Shi Han Mao Dian Zi Shang Wu Shang Hang | Lance Liu | Huishan Zheng | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0173 | infringement | Application Icon | On March 14, 2020, the copyright holder's representative sent the infringing developer's representative a business offer containing the copyrighted application icon. On March 30, 2020, the developer's representative confirmed sending the copyrighted application icon inclusive content to the developer. See discovery evidence: https://www.dropbox.com/s/67mdxxnw6gcosdq/Crinimal%20Copyright%20Infringement%20Evidence.pdf?dl=0 .IPA Version 4.31 released September of 2022 infringes with an unauthorized derivative work of VA0002315168, see iOS app 'willful' infringement and unauthorized derivative icon work: hhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/8daqits618uw1pk/IMG_0123.jpg?dl=0 - Apple Inc is not licensed or implied to have a license to 17 USC 101 U.S. registered copyright logo. PNC is willfully infringing said registered copyright, did not independently create the infringing icon. Copyright owner contacted Apple Inc, the distributor of the infringing content, and Apple responded but did not comply to the DMCA takedown request to enable a DMCA Safe Harbor status, please see evidence: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u75umnwg40ki7v9/PNC%20DMCA.pdf?dl=0 | Apple Inc refusal to comply to the DMCA takedown request is preventing their infringing developer from taking a Term Sheet "Derivative License" for the global distributed infringement. As of .IPA app version distribution, Apple Inc has not enabled their DMCA Safe Harbor option before the ongoing infringing updated .IPA version release of 4.31 - Copyright holder seeks max willful Infringement CCB recovery of $30,000 for infringing .IPA version 4.31 - The copyright holder's home District Court jurisdiction in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Should Apple Inc opt out of CCB, the copyright owner will seek lost profits of the Term Sheet amount Apple Inc was in witness of submission to their infringing developer. | Closed | William Grecia | none | Apple Inc | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0172 | infringement | Application Icon Design | On August 17, 2020, PayPal Inc received and responded to an IP evaluation of Registered Copyright VA0002315168, see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8arjcx0o21iqryy/DD-Icon%20Copyright.png?dl=0 - PayPal's head of IP Anup Tikku was the receiving party for PayPal, see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wj62fdrch9fmm38/PayPal_Anup.pdf?dl=0 - .IPA Version 8.25.1 released September of 2022 infringes with an unauthorized derivative work of VA0002315168, see iOS app 'willful' infringement and unauthorized derivative icon work: https://www.dropbox.com/s/35fy1b901abn9sg/IMG_0069.jpg?dl=0 - Apple Inc is not licensed or implied to have a license to 17 USC 101 U.S. registered copyright logo. PayPal Inc is willfully infringing said registered copyright, did not independently create the infringing icon. Copyright owner contacted Apple Inc, the distributor of the infringing content, and Apple responded but did not comply to the DMCA takedown request to enable a DMCA Safe Harbor status, please see evidence: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1l6qwa7mqte1mv/PayPal%20DMA.pdf?dl=0 | Apple Inc refusal to comply to the DMCA takedown request is preventing their infringing developer from taking a Term Sheet "Derivative License" for the global distributed infringement. As of .IPA app version distribution, Apple Inc has not enabled their DMCA Safe Harbor option before the ongoing infringing updated .IPA version release of 8.26.0 - Copyright holder seeks max willful Infringement CCB recovery of $30,000 for infringing .IPA version 8.26.0 - The copyright holder's home District Court jurisdiction in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Should Apple Inc opt out of CCB, the copyright owner will seek lost profits of the Term Sheet amount Apple Inc was in witness of submission to their infringing developer. | Closed | William Grecia | none | Apple Inc | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0171 | infringement | Music and lyrics | This is derivative work both his song and my song are both played B Major and G#Minor I can sing my song with his and he can sing his with mine they are played the exact same way my song is called I can be your hero his song is called Hero. His song is definitely inspired from me and is stolen from me I'm saying I can be your hero his song is saying he can't be your hero he took my composition and added some new stuff in it and change the lyrics and added new alterations but it's still the same song. | He got over millions and millions of steams off of spotify and and got thousands and thousands of plays off of Pandora and other streaming sites he stole my dream from me people think he wrote this song and created it and that's not true I haven't got none of success he got from the song and I wrote and produce it I only got thousand play off of spotify and hundred of of other streaming sites. | Closed | Derrick Belmar | none | Matthew Pfahl | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0170 | infringement | None given | They used my name without my written consent. | I suffered harm as a result to this activity because they used my name on a document to cause me financial harm and defamation of character. I never gave the respondent written consent to use my name on any of their documents. The relief I'm seeking is $5000 for monetary damages and for the respondents not to use my copyrighted information indefinitely. | Closed | Jermaine Applewhite | none | IL DEPT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0169 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Jeff Reggiani | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0168 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Sonia Garnes | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0167 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Francis Ortiz Fornes | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0166 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Damage to the reputation of my brand and many dissatisfied customers. The infringer is selling his low quality product under my photo. Statutory Damages - $2000 Costs and attorney’s fees - $500 Temporary and/or final injunction to restrain infringement of my copyright. | Closed | Igor Shtylenko | none | NAVED | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0165 | infringement | None given | The infringing sites have taken my book that I've licensed to other platforms and put it in public for free. | Due to the infringment, it directly led to the continuous decline in the income of the authors we signed.We hope that the pirated websites will apologize to us and immediately remove our exclusive works.We tried many ways to leave messages often without contacting the infringing website. Finally, we tried to find the service provider, but they cannot give the invaild message and don't deal with it. | Closed | READ ASAP LTD | none | CLOUDFLARE, INC. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0164 | infringement | Composition | TITLE 17 USC Section 501 . Infringement of Sound Recording rights | Has not been paid royalties on the masters side. | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | Daniel Cotton | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0163 | infringement | Photograph of a couple walking together in a park | The image in question was used on a public facing commercial website promoting the services of Roger E Quinney | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | ROGER E QUINNEY | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0162 | infringement | Song | Respondent unlawfully, and without authorization from Claimant, copied Claimant's copyrighted sound recordings, made unauthorized derivative works of those sound recordings by synchronizing them to promotional videos/advertisements and distributed and publicly performed those video advertisements by uploading them to the www.youtube.com website. | Lost licensencing fees, lost profits, dilution of value/license fee. Claimant is seeking $30,000 in damages for each work infringed. | Closed | Freeplay Music, LLC | Abrams Fensterman LLP | Linclon Property Company | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0161 | infringement | Yellow enamel pin with banner and footprints | Counterfeit copies of my original design are being sold online. | Seller is infringing on my sales on the same platform. This is the second time this seller has taken down and then relisted my original artwork. She is KNOWINGLY infringing after multiple requests to takedown | Closed | Snarky Crafter Designs Inc. | none | Danielle Bennett | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0160 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Jason Oslin | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0159 | -DMCA | NA | NA | The market for the original video is entirely removed, deliberately, by the site's self hosting of it instead of providing a link to the video itself which is freely accessible. Due to the owner misusing copyright exemption laws in a very direct and deliberate way, the relief sought is that they no longer retain safe harbor protection. | Closed | WhiteForest | none | Lolcow LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0158 | infringement | Commercial photo of a man sitting at a table having an office teleconference with other people on a large computer screen. | Acuity Network Services was using an unauthorized reproduction of the Cisco TelePresence Webex Meeting Photograph to advertise its own competing products and services on its own website. | In 2013, I was engaged by Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”) to do an extensive photo shoot in Oslo for Cisco’s marketing materials. Total billing for production, fees, etc. for that shoot was over $100,000, which included the hiring of several models. As part of that project, I set up and created a photo for Cisco’s Webex Meeting suite of products. Cisco received a lifetime license to use the Webex Meeting Photograph, which Cisco has indeed used in connection with marketing its products. Photograph is protected by U.S. Copyright Registration No. VAu 1-138-361. (Cisco web use: https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in/products/conferencing/webex-meeting-center/index.html) Acuity’s use of the Cisco Webex Meeting Photograph illegally took the economic value that Cisco invested, and my future potential re-licensing and used the photo in direct competition with Cisco’s products, in violation of U.S. and state laws of unfair competition and false advertising. Moreover, Acuity’s unauthorized use of the Cisco Webex Meeting Photograph violates the rights of publicity of the models shown in Acuity’s infringing image, who did not give Acuity any rights to commercially reproduce their likenesses. Those | Closed | Jordan Reeder | none | Acuity Network Services | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0157 | infringement | website | I am the owner of the site https://veha.ua and the trademark "ВЕХА". Information copied from my site. Information without my consent is displayed on the site https://vekha.com.ua (may need to be enabled to display VPN) | 1. Loss of customers ($5,000 per year) 2. Deterioration of the site's position in Google | Closed | Denis Plakhotnikov | none | Eugene Korolev | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0156 | infringement | Ross Fulton (aka) Alebrelle discusses a few films, then makes Jell-O and a few other food items in their kitchen. | The infringing activity is extensive and the short summary is as follows: Mr. Kis took extensively from my library of videos and other content. He infringed upon 10 different videos in 17 different segments, as well as displaying an art for hire piece that I use as my primary branding. In a work of just over 15 minutes in length my material accounts for 4 minutes 24 seconds for just over 28% of the runtime of his derivitive and infringing work. The account of the title of each of my videos and the timelogs of the periods during Mr Kis's work in which they appear are listed in full here: 1:08-1:20, 9:29-9:51 - "Alebrelle talking about Destiny's child" 1:22-1:32, 12:15-12:29, 12:41-15:55 - "Jellies and puddings? Next thing you'll tell me there's ochre and trolls in this kitchen." 1:32-1:37, 13:57-14:26 - "No circus, no monkeys. Have a chill day where we just hang out and putz around on the computer." 1:57-2:09 - "Even further pudding and beyond." 1:59-2:01 - Branding Artwork 3:33-3:46, 9:51-10:32 - "How can you CONSTANTLY garden, anyway? Seems excessive." 3:49-3:54 - "TRAIN PLATFORMS NAZIS" 4:18-4:39, 8:39-8:58 - "My Girlfriend Makes Comments I Don't Like About My | The harm suffered from the work of Mr. Kis is devaluation of licensure of important and newsworthy material that I hold under my copyright, as well as reputational damage by using my material in ways to which I object and do not meet my artistic standards. As a creator who works extensively in the LGBTQ+ and general political spheres my reputation is my livelihood. In 2018 a newsworthy short video segment of mine licensed to a small YouTube channel for $250 dollars. Requested remedies for damages are as follows: 1) Immediate cessation and removal of the infringing works. 2) Public apology admitting wrongdoing on defendant's YouTube channel where original infringement occured of at least 60 seconds duration. 3) Compensatory damages for twice license fees for potential lost revenue ($250 x 2), filing fees for both this suit ($100) fees for the registration of copyright ($45), and 5 hours labor self representation legal fees @ $20/hr ($100). Total compensatory damages of $745. 4) Punitive damages for grossly negligent infringement and for what accounts to a press tour against me in retaliation because of initiation of these legal proceedings that has spanned severa | Closed | Ross Fulton | none | Gábor Kis | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0155 | infringement | Abandoned homes on the Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana | Respondent reproduced, displayed, and distributed an unauthorized copy of Claimant’s Photograph on populationeducation.org, despite the presence of a copyright notice indicating Julie Dermansky as the rightsholder. Respondent Population Connection owns and operates the program ‘Population Education’, whose website (populationeducation.org) was where the infringing article was posted. Claimant never authorized Respondent to reproduce, publish, display, or make use of any kind of the Photograph. | $15,000: - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits | Closed | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Population Connection | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0154 | infringement | Products for sale on Amazon | We designed this image in 2016, doing offline brick and mortar business, but we found that a large number of products are produced in China, and the manufacturer is located in China, which infringes our patent and is not authorized by us Valid intellectual property registration number: VA0002315802 We can see in detail on the product details page and product pictures that the product uses the dragon pattern designed by our company (registration number: VA0002315802) We have retained screenshots of relevant infringement evidence: https://postimg.cc/gallery/Mz37RJX This seriously violates the rights and interests of intellectual property rights holders We believe Amazon is protecting infringing sellers when reporting infringement has such clear evidence I have a good faith belief that the above content violates my rights above or the rights held by the rights holder and that it is unlawful to use the content. I represent, under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in this notice is accurate and that I am the owner of the above rights or its agent. ASIN(s) of the product(s) and Marketplace. Please include all impacted ASINs for the same listing issue, | We have repeatedly asked Amazon to complain about infringement Amazon has been shielding infringing sellers | Closed | Dongguan Xinmao Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd | none | shenzhenshibaikechuangxinkejiyouxiangongsi | Order Denying Request to Link allbert huang with the Dongguan Xinmao Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd party |
| 22-CCB-0153 | infringement | Artwork is a Starbucks parody of a girl in a striped shirt crying while wearing a protest hat with the words Liberal Tears going around the logo. | Artwork is being reproduced and sold on a t-shirt without permission, or payment of a licensing fee. When I contacted Google for a DMCA, the infringing company filed a counterclaim against me. | The infringing company is causing confusion in the market by claiming my art as their own. My years of marketing have been harmed by the distribution of my artwork previously enjoyed without competition for profits in my own shops. Search engine webpage results, image search results, and paid Google shopping campaigns by the infringer have caused my original ecommerce sources to be diluted by their marketing. Infringer has filed a false statement of infringement again me with Google. Infringer continues to publish my artwork by creating URL redirects to skirt the Google takedown. Infringer has done this all while already having been provided my US Copyright documentation. I am seeking statutory damages in the amount of $30,000. | Closed | George T Jones | none | NemoPremium LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0152 | -DMCA | NA | NA | We received a number of demands and claims from the CBD Advertising Agency LTD clients, because they were frustrated with https://cbdadvertising.agency/ services, but because of the same design they desided that we are the same website. Our employees spent hour spent hours of work explaining that we have nothing in common with https://cbdadvertising.agency/. | Closed | Local Profy LLC | none | CBD Advertising Agency LTD | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0151 | -DMCA | NA | NA | For years, I have actively enforced my copyrights against unauthorized use. Most infringers are typically located overseas, trying to sell blurry, pixelated/distorted prints that they offer for sale by lazily uploading my images to quick, print-on-demand service websites. I've issued DMCA takedown notices, and after these infringers make a quick buck, they usually delete their accounts and disappear. However, lately there has been a disturbing trend of brazen infringers filing false counter-notices because there is no consequence to them. The burden of proof is on artists like me who the infringers count on not being able to afford the cost, time and emotional turmoil to file a Federal lawsuit against them. I take great pride in my 5-star reviews, providing personal customer service and high quality products to my loyal patrons. Aside from lost revenue, by reproducing and profiting off of poor quality reproductions of my copyrighted artwork, the Respondent is harming my reputation as a graphics artist and small business. It also dilutes my brand's value as unsuspecting customers may have the perception that my work is not original and other infringing parties will think it's fre | Closed | Amy Do | none | Pinelli Stewart | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0150 | infringement-DMCA | The Cyber Garden Reflective Print - A Pictorial and graphic features identified separately from and capable of existing independently of the utilitarian aspects of a useful article. | Unauthorized reproduction and distribution of Dolls Kill's copyrighted work, and misrepresentation of facts in counter-notice sent to the service provider. | Loss of revenue and goodwill and/or reputation Relief sought: Actual damages suffered as a result of the infringement and any profits of the infringer that are attributable to the infringement and are not taken into account in computing the actual damages. | Closed | Dolls Kill, Inc. | none | Dexter Renter | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0149 | infringement | Photograph of the family room of a home located in Johnston, IA | Kerry Bern (Claimant) is a professional architecture/interior photographer with over 10 years of experience based in Ankeny, IA. Claimant is the creator and copyright owner of the photograph 250A9084.jpg. The photograph was first published on July 22nd, 2018. Claimant registered the photograph with the USCO under Registration Certificate VA 2-123-376 with an effective date of registration of September 19th, 2018. Respondent is a home remodeling firm located in Fort Worth, TX. Respondent owns and operates the website www.luxuryhomeremodelingdfw.com and Facebook page www.facebook.com/luxuryhomeremodelingdfw which it uses to promote its business. On or about December 20th, 2021, Claimant discovered his photograph being used on the Respondent’s website claiming it represents a home remodel project that the Respondent completed in Frisco, TX. Claimant did not grant permission for Respondent to copy, display or distribute his photograph on Respondent’s website or Facebook page to promote Respondent’s business. Claimant retained the law firm SRIP Law to attempt to negotiate a settlement with the Respondent. SRIP Law emailed a demand letter to the Respondent on February 16th, 2022 | Since the Claimant timely registered the work under section 412, Claimant elects an award of statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I). | Closed | Kerry Bern | none | Luxury Home Remodeling DFW | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0148 | infringement | photo of bride and groom | I’m here to collect $5000 from Island Entertainment and Spring House Hotel. The business took a photograph of mine and used it in 2 magazine print advertisements over the course of the year. They did not have permission or the rights to that photo. I learned when confronting them over this issue that they were about to take out a third advertisement. Each advertisement cost $5,000. They spent money to advertise the business, but did not properly pay for the art used in that advertisement. I sent the owner Frank an invoice to collect the fees for the use of that photo in a commercial advertisement. He repeatedly refused my invoices and tried to intimidate and shame me for the simple practice of collecting payment for my work and time. When I called again to pursue the invoice after 6+months of it going ignored, he paid lawyers to send me a cease and desist order to prevent me from communicating with his business and pursuing payment. He claims he understood he had the rights to use this photo. He did not. I have in writing that I gave his marketing manager permission to share a photo of mine in social media, with an explicit credit to my account. No other use case. This permi | I would receive multiple inquries a year and opportunites to photograph weddings at the spring house hotel which i can no longer take because of this issue and the 'cease and decease' their lawyers sent me, also in good faith- they stole from me. I lost 4500$ worth of business billing hours as a result of pursuing this claim including all the information gathering and communications with the defendants lawyers. | Closed | Mikhail Glabets Photography LCC | none | Island entertainment dba Spring House Hotel | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0147 | -DMCA | NA | NA | As a self-employed person - journalist and analyst on a freelance, my articles are my only source of income, and the specialty and uniqueness of my work help me to support myself. So, the use of my intellectual property (my articles) without my permission deprives me of my means of livelihood. Based on that, I kindly ask you to oblige the resource moshennik.eu and online service provider Google.com to remove my articles from the website moshennik.eu and Google search results. | Closed | Ekaterina Blagaya | none | Viktor Dobroserdov | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0146 | 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® 242: Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Dustin Poirier mixed martial arts program, including all undercard bouts and commentary, on September 7, 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 Tango Bravo Charlie, Inc. and Thomas Halverson (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Shooters Bar & Grille located at 6 N. Maple, Watertown, SD 57201 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Respondent Thomas Halverson is an individual who resides in the State of Sout | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Tango Bravo Charlie, Inc. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0145 | infringement | short video of eagles locking talons | My video clip copyright # 1-11692301741 was taken from my Instagram account, cropped to remove my watermark which read "Mark Smith Photography" and then used twice in their video at the above referenced url. The moment I learned of this, I filed a complaint with Youtube. Youtube responded quickly and removed the video. The respondent emailed me the following day offering to pay a small licensing fee for the stolen content. I did not respond. The respondent emailed again a couple of days later asking me to name a price for licensing the video. I responded with a price of $50,000. The respondent refused my offer and filed a counter claim stating fair use. | My video clip that was stolen is widely known and was used in a way that shed bad light on me. The stolen clip was used alongside other graphic content that I would never associate myself with. My reputation as an ethical wildlife photographer was damaged. The respondent also monetized the video profiting off of my hard work. | Closed | Daniel M Smith | none | Umair Zaib | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0144 | infringement | Photograph | Mr. Beck copied and posted Mr. Andrews' copyrighted photographs to Mr. Beck's Facebook feed without proper license or permission from Mr. Andrews. Mr. Beck copied and posted Mr. Andrews' copyrighted photographs to illustrate a advertisement for a rental property. | Mr. Andrews is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Andrews charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Beck failed to properly license eighteen of Mr. Andrews' copyrighted photographs. | Closed | Philip Andrews | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | John T Beck | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0143 | infringement | Application Icon Design | Willful Infringement: a representative of Wells Fargo received a copy of the infringed work in March 2018: Sent to Wells Fargo by William Grecia representative: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b38ex0VdkwoMSeN8FeDbfPMw Confirm receive by Wells Fargo Zelle representative: https://share.icloud.com/photos/027Cvt5c_EwYdLLBPWAtTYW4g | Wells Fargo is has allowed collusion from its owned subsidiary Early Warning Services LLC to use illegal anti-trust methods to stop and limit William Grecia’s entry into the market since 2017. William Grecia seeks the full $30,000 remedy while retaining the right to Opt Out to a full Copyright Infringement filing pending on the discovery production of total distributed users of the Wells Fargo online and mobiles apps in the home district of EDPA. | Closed | William Grecia | none | Wells Fargo & Company | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0142 | infringement | Icon Design for applications | The infringer's representative received a tangible copy of the copyright owner's protected design on March 14, 2020. See discovery evidence: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8cbn8268ittz2ki/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-02%20at%208.10.13%20PM.png?dl=0 Copyright owners contacted Twitter DMCA portal and they refused to enforce the Takedown request making Twitter an instant Contributory Infringer. | Public confusion over the Zelle application misuse of the copyright icon with that of the Copyright owner's own products and services. Copyright owner seeks immediate takedown of the infringing post and disablement of the infringing user's entire account until resolution. Copyright owner seeks the full remedy of $30,000 in damages if Twitter refuses to comply. | Closed | William Grecia | none | Twitter, Inc | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0141 | infringement | True Life Story of Dr. Dippold growing up in foster care. Melissa Mulhollan is the editor on the project and her name is listed on the cover. | TikTok Melissa Mulhollan has a private TiKTOK acount with 10 videos playing videos of me holding up the book that at the time was being published by PrinciplesLLC. Since July 1, 2022 ZeeT Publishing obtained exclusive publication rights for the said book. Melissa Mulhollan was notified in writing about the change in publisher and notified and requested multiple times to remove 10 TikToK videos advertising the book and Dr. Dippold as being published by her company Pfrinciples LLC. To date she has blocked Dr. Dippold from the account so she can not see that they are still up and being advertised. This in itself is 10 accounts of copyright infringement. This is deliberate wrongful acts on her part. MelissaMulhollan.com On her personal website she has a section called Just Another Slice ( Again she was notified that she is NOT allowed to advertise or market the book in any manner.) She has a picture of the book and an entire message defaming Dr. Dippold on her personal site claiming she is co-author. Melissa Thompsom Mulhollan Facebook She has a picture of the book on this site telling people not to buy the version under ZeeT Publishing. Again defaming Dr. Dippold. We have pic | I am seeking the max claim of 30,000. Melissa Mulhollan has three facebook post going asking people not to by the book from Amazon that list ZeeT Publishing as the publisher. We have a copy of a conversation where one person stated that she was going to by the book but Melissa Mulhollan told them not to. We have pictures of Melissa Mulhollan engaging in 41 conversations misrepresenting herself and not clarifying for people that she is not the copyright holder. Plus she is encouraging people to share the post. This is deliberate and wrongful behavior. One of her friends made a false review on Amazon with a 1 star rating stating that the book was fraudelent published by Zeet and the "editor is the author too." This lowered the ranking on Amazon impacting the sales. All of Melissa's infringements are not by accident and are on purpose wrongful doing. If there are any attorney fee's I am requesting the CCB board to consider her being responsible for those fees. Due to the defaming comments, her public claims calling me an abuser (I have a picture of the post), her claims I stole the book ( I have a picture of the post) it is not only affecting my author credibility but I am a psych | Closed | Zeet Publishing LLC | none | Melissa Mulhollan | Reissue Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0140 | infringement | Night-time photo of Broadway in Downtown Nashville, TN (IMG Nashville-Classics-Downtown-Broadway-0481.jpg) | Respondent saved and uploaded a screenshot of the copyright image from Claimants website. Respondent posted this image to referenced online locations to advertise and promote a commercial event. Infringement was found after event was completed and usage of copyright image had benefited Respondents business venture. Attempted contact with Respondent on September 28, 2020 via an attorney without settlement success. Documentation supporting is attached to case submission. | Seeking monetary relief in the amount of $2,500 for the infringement made by the Respondent by advertising with and use of copied imagery by Claimant resulting in ticket event sales and profits of an unknown amount. Claimant works and relies on income as a freelance commercial photographer. The unapproved usage of imagery creates a burden on the Claimant in the following ways: 1) Reduction of passive income through online SEO-driven advertising. Originating website makes income based on advertising. Advertising revenue is dependent on active traffic. The active traffic is reduced when original imagery is duplicated, as SEO engines calculate this into originality of content and results in lower traffic direction to the original single-source posting. ; 2) Direct licensing fee loss. The cost of licensing the imagery was bypassed blatantly (by capturing the image as a screenshot. ; 3) An established business operating commercial for-profit events for years, PEM, the Respondent, infringed upon the Claimants copyright in a direct manner to boost sales and extend their profit for the promoted event. As such established business, the Respondent would be aware of the harm and legality of t | Closed | Southern Fatty Media, LLC | none | Premier Event Management LLC, Attn: Bill Burke | 22-CCB-0140 Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0139 | infringement | 2-D artwork depicting the history of American house styles | The infringing party has been selling a duplicate of our copyright work on Etsy.com. When we submitted a DMCA takedown request, the infringing party filed a counter notice. | We have lost revenue to this infringing party when customers purchased their counterfeit version instead of ours. It has also diluted our brand's value as having numerous sellers purporting to own our designs makes our work appear to not be our original work. | Closed | Pop Chart Lab, Inc. | none | Sione Tuai | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0138 | infringement | Photograph | Pacific Tax Pros copied and posted Mr. Pearson's copyrighted photograph to its commercial website and Instagram feed without proper license or permission from Mr. Pearson. | Mr. Pearson is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Pearson charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Pacific Tax Pros failed to properly license Mr. Pearson's copyrighted photograph. | Closed | David C Deal | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Pacific Tax Pros | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0137 | infringement | Group registration of photographs | Claimant Urbanlip.com LTD is a London based imaging company specializing in health and beauty images. Respondent is the owner and operator of the website https://faviana.com which is a website that promotes and sells the Respondent’s clothing and products . On or about August 2020, Claimant discovered that their 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Urbanlip.com Ltd | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Faviana International Inc | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0136 | infringement | Photograph | Visionary Financial copied and posted Mr. Verch's copyrighted photographs to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Verch. Mr. Verch makes the images available for use under a Creative Commons 2.0 license, but Visionary Financial followed none of the published terms. | Mr. Verch is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Verch charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Visionary Financial failed to properly license two of Mr. Verch's copyrighted photographs. | Closed | Marco C Verch | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Visionary Financial LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0135 | infringement | Photograph | Discount Fence copied and posted Mr. Beeman's copyrighted photograph to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Beeman. | Mr. Beeman is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Beeman charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Discount Fence failed to properly license Mr. Beeman's copyrighted photograph. Mr. Beeman timely registered his image and is therefore eligible for statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504-5. | Closed | Josh C Beeman | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Discount Fence Supply, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0134 | infringement | Photograph | Alpine SB Solutions copied and posted Mr. Buisse's copyrighted photograph to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Buisse. | Mr. Buisse is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Buisse charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Alpine SB Solutions failed to properly license Mr. Buisse's copyrighted photograph. | Closed | Alex C Buisse | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Jessica Granish | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0133 | infringement | Sound Recording, Production, Musical Arrangement | Some contract was signed for the subject song. Song was released without a record contract and the SR was stolen from the claimant. Relief requested return of the copyright return of the SR recordings and full damages for $30,000. | A contract was signed for the subject song. But the Song was released without a record contract and the SR was stolen from the claimant. Song was represented by a demo not intended for public release and stolen from the claimant and released without the claimants knowledge and without a record contract with the claimant for the group the global Gonks. This release was not discovered until two months ago. Claimant possesses an example of that recording for review by the board. The song represents a once a year special situation for military veterans and could have made the claimant well in excess of $30,000 for this song which represents Veterans Day had it not been stolen by the defendants. Relief requested return of the copyright return of the SR recordings and full damages for $30,000. | Closed | Leslie M Fradkin | none | Spirit Music Group | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0132 | infringement | Photograph | Martin Fein Interests copied and posted Mr. Lee's copyrighted photograph to a video advertising real property. Martin Fein Interests posted Mr. Lee's photograph in a video posted to its Facebook feed, and did so without proper license or permission from Mr. Lee. | Mr. Lee is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Lee charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Martin Fein Interests failed to properly license Mr. Lee's copyrighted photograph. | Closed | Jerome Lee | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Martin Fein Interests Ltd. d/b/a The Belmont Luxury Apartment Homes | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0131 | infringement | Photograph | Van Valen Associates copied and posted Mr. Iwasaki's copyrighted photograph to its social media (Facebook) feed without proper license or permission from Mr. Iwasaki. | Mr. Iwasaki is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Iwasaki charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Van Valen Associates failed to properly license Mr. Iwasaki's copyrighted photograph. | Closed | Rich Iwasaki | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Van Valen Associates, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0130 | infringement | Photograph | Baroque Travel copied and posted Mr. Havel's copyrighted photograph to its social media (Facebook, Instagram) without proper license or permission from Mr. Havel. | Mr. Havel is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Havel charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Baroque Travel failed to properly license twelve of Mr. Havel's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Havel timely registered his image and is therefore eligible for statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504-5. | Closed | Tomáš Havel | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Baroque Travel, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0129 | infringement | Photograph | Versatile Office Trailers copied and posted Mr. Jenkins' copyrighted photograph to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Jenkins. | Mr. Jenkins is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Jenkins charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Versatile Office Trailers failed to properly license Mr. Jenkins' copyrighted photograph. | Closed | Arno Jenkins | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Versatile Office Trailors | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0128 | infringement | Photograph | St. James Chamber of Commerce copied and posted Mr. Moore's' copyrighted photographs to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Moore. | Mr. Moore is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Moore charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. St. James Chamber of Commerce failed to properly license Mr. Moore's copyrighted photograph. Mr. Moore is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue. | Closed | Paul Moore | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | St. James Chamber of Commerce | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0127 | infringement | Photograph | Air Charter Advisors copied and posted Mr. Kruglov's copyrighted photographs to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Kruglov. Mr. Kruglov makes the images available for use under a Creative Commons 2.0 license, but Air Charter Advisors followed none of the published terms. | Mr. Kruglov is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Kruglov charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Air Charter Advisors failed to properly license twelve of Mr. Kruglov's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Kruglov is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue. | Closed | Roman Kruglov | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Air Charters Advisors, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0126 | infringement | Essay on arts, general reflections on art with a focus on photoshop artist Tigran Tsitoghdzyan | The domain www.ttigran.com is under Tigran T. control for commercial and advertising purposes. See attached Exhibits proving the fact. The author gave permission for a one-time printing of the text as part of a catalog, printed in paper, in the past, in the form a book, in 2015, but never granted unbounded permission of use of the text after that under any other form, and never for online publication, and even less gave the author the text for Tigran T. to copyright it. On his website the text bears at the end a note indicating that T.T. holds its copyright, which is utterly false. He has been taking advantage of the Plaintiff's work for his own improper enrichment. This infringement has been committed by him willfully, misleads the public, and it is a gross falsehood. See attached Exhibits proving the fact. | The harm is financial, since the Defendant takes unbounded advantage of the Plaintiff's copyrighted work without proper permission. The harm is also public defamation, in the clear view that the Defendant, not happy enough by using the text online without permision to do so, has been exhibiting, since 2016, the next inscription next to it "Copyrighted Tigran Tsitoghdzyan", which is utterly false. This defames the author of the text, misleads the public, falsifies publicly the status of the literary work in an egregious, willful manner. | Closed | Arthur Balder | none | Tigran Tsitoghdzyan | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0125 | infringement | Photograph | Ozy Media copied and posted Mr. Richert's copyrighted photographs to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Richert. Mr. Richert makes the images available for use under a Creative Commons 2.0 license, but Ozy Media followed none of the published terms. | Mr. Richert is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Richert charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Ozy Media failed to properly license two of Mr. Richert's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Richert is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue. | Closed | Marcus Richert | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Ozy Media, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0124 | infringement | Photographs | Ozy Media copied and posted Mr. Proimos' copyrighted photographs to its commercial website without proper license or permission from Mr. Proimos. Mr. Proimos makes the images available for use under a Creative Commons 2.0 license, but Ozy Media followed none of the published terms. | Mr. Proimos is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Proimos charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Ozy Media failed to properly license twelve of Mr. Proimos's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Proimos is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue. | Closed | Alex Proimos | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Ozy Media, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0123 | infringement | Photographs of car hood logos | Inside.com copied and posted without proper license or permission Mr. Radic's copyrighted photographs to its commercial website. Mr. Radic makes the images at issue in this case available under a Creative Commons 2.0 license, but Inside.com failed to follow any of the terms specified under the CC 2.0 license. | Mr. Radic is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Radic charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Inside.com failed to properly license twelve of Mr. Radic's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Radic is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue. | Closed | Ivan Radic | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Inside.com, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0122 | infringement | Photograph of subway train | Escape Quest LLC copied and posted Mr. Schumin's copyrighted photograph to its commercial website without proper license or permission. The infringing use of Mr. Schumin's copyrighted photograph appeared next to a description of the Washington, D.C. Metrorail. | Mr. Schumin is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Schumin charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Escape Quest failed to properly license Mr. Schumin's copyrighted photograph. Mr. Schumin is due the cost of a proper license for the image at issue. | Closed | Ben Schumin | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Escape Quest, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0121 | -DMCA | NA | NA | As a self-employed person - journalist and analyst on a freelance, my articles are my only source of income, and the specialty and uniqueness of my work help me to support myself. So, the use of my intellectual property (my articles) without my permission deprives me of my means of livelihood. Based on that, I kindly ask you to oblige the resource komentish.com and online service provider Google.com to remove my articles from the website komentish.com and Google search results. | Closed | Ruslan Barabanov | none | Vitaly Bogachev | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0120 | infringement | Original Icon Design presented to infringer's representative for partnership on March 20, 2020 | Under section "How to Pay it Safe with Zelle", second (middle) image infringes the registered icon presented to infringer's representative on March 20, 2020 | Market confusion of competing service mark use of the copyright design. Copyright Owners seeks infringement relief up to the maximum Copyright Claims Board recovery of $30,000 for the single infringement count. | Closed | William Grecia | none | Early Warning Services LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0119 | infringement | Photographs of real property | The Pearsons copied and posted Mr. Pennell's copyrighted photographs to advertise and market a rental property listed on www.vrbo.com, without proper license or permission from Mr. Pennell, the copyright holder. | Mr. Pennell is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Pennell charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. The Pearsons failed to properly license seven of Mr. Pennell's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Pennell is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue, as well as attributable profits by The Pearsons. Since most if not all renters of vacation properties do so sight unseen and rely on photographs that accompany the rental listing, Mr. Pennell is due all profits from the period of time The Pearsons used Mr. Pennell's copyrighted photographs. | Closed | Jeffrey D. Pennell | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Christopher S. Pearson | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0118 | infringement | Photographs of interior and exterior of house | Coastland Realty copied and posted Mr. Pennell's copyrighted photographs to its commercial website to advertise and promote the real property located at: 9100 Reed Dr, Emerald Isle, NC ("Queens Court 3101"), 7701 Ocean Drive East, Emerald Isle, NC ("Rooms With A View East"), and 7701 Ocean Drive West, Emerald Isle, NC ("Rooms With A View East"). | Mr. Pennell is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted photographs. Mr. Pennell charges license fees for the proper use of his copyrighted photographs. Coastland Realty failed to properly license seventy-nine of Mr. Pennell's copyrighted photographs. Mr. Pennell is due the cost of a proper license for the images at issue, as well as attributable profits by Coastland Realty. Since most if not all renters of vacation properties do so sight unseen and rely on photographs that accompany the rental listing, Mr. Pennell is due all profits from the period of time Coastland used Mr. Pennell's copyrighted photographs. | Closed | Jeffery D. Pennell | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Coastland Realty, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0117 | infringement-DMCA | You Said It Was Love Special Treat | selling records and recouping royalties, and copyrighting music that was recorded in 1989. | I originally had the song playing at the radio station in Houston on 102.1 we received no royalties from the song. I was unable to receive any information from Robert Gillerman. I received zero payment. I spent 25,000.00 to make the song in a studio in Houston in 1989. I would like to receive 25,000.00 and my master tape of the song back. | Closed | Ronald K Dewitt | none | Select-O-Hits | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0116 | infringement | Private Photograph I taken of myself in my Private Vehicle looking into the camera while holding my beard. I did not give permission or consent to use this pic in any way including in derivative works | Heels in the Air dba Vicki Pate has made a derivative of my Copyrighted work. It is not parody. It is not fair use. It is not being used for educational purposes. The Infringer has also infringed on at least 50 other photos / videos of mine that I plan to file claims against in the future. I've sent the Infringer Vicki Pate who Operates Heels in the Air a cease & desist. Vicki Pate has not complied as of this date. | The Heels in the Air YouTube Channel that is ran by Vicki Pate has over 10,000 Subscribers at the time of this Claim. The channel distributing my Copyright Photo as a derivative of my work which is not fair use, it's not parody, it's not for educational purposes. The Infringer is using my copyrighted work to defame me causing deliberate infliction of emotional distress. I seek $20,000 in relief | Closed | Jonathan Riches | none | Heels in the Air dba Vicki Pate | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0115 | infringement | Image of a dog on a snowy hill | Respondents accessed the watermarked photographs from Claimant's website, illicitly copied them, then published them to their commercial website to promote their rental property. When approached with a settlement offer, Respondents removed the website and later falsely asserted the website was non-commercial and the the use would fall under Fair Use or Claimant's free "personal use only" license (which it does not and which would still require Claimant's permission, see https://www.alex-kunz.com/about/photo-licensing-information/). Respondents refused to discuss settlement (see Statement of Facts, attached). | Loss of license fees as well as control of Claimant's works. Claimant requests $12,500 in statutory damages for the timely-registered Landscape Photo and $5000 for the Dog Photo. | Closed | Alexander Kunz | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | Ryan Trenhaile | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0114 | infringement | None given | Copyright infringement in violation of United States copyright laws. Specifically, infringer is an IP attorney who chose to copy significant portions of Plaintiff's law firm webpage content describing its detailed step by step method for trademark prosecution. Please see cease and desist exhibit with side by side comparison. | We are seeking the max in statutory damages. The infringer used Plaintiff's registered written content to compete for the same consumers and presented Plaintiff's work as its own to Plaintiff's detriment. | Closed | Gerben Perrott PLLC | Gerben Perrott, PLLC | Fine Point Law, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0113 | infringement | Manuscript | Dorrance Publishing I ended with book contract with July 2018. Since then there has been numerous emails to them, to remove my book content for sales and distribution, including sending a complaint to the Better Business Bureau regarding copyright infringement and royalty payment issues. As of today, August 24th, my ebook of The Christian Teen Buzz, is still being illegally sold on Google Play and eBay websites for public display, reproduction of work and distribution sales. My book is copyrighted and should not be redistrubted or on display for sales or available for sales by Dorrance Publishing. | The harm I have suffered is copyright infringement and my intellectual property being used against my permission, unreported book sales, and illegally profiting of my book, and missing and unreported royalty payments from 2018-2022. I would like monetary damages and undue stress damages paid to me to the fullest amount from Dorrance publishing and my book ebook ISBN #978-1-4809-7151-6 removed from Google Play, listed by Dorrance Publishing and the paperback removed from ebay, ISBN #978-1-4809-7151-6 immediately, back pay from any hidden profits unknown to me from Dorrance Publishing/Rosedog books. | Closed | Shon S Lewis | none | Dorrance Publishing | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0112 | infringement | Motion Picture Film for Coming to America | Copyright Rights: Paramount Pictures Corporation (“Paramount Pictures”) is the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest in and to the copyrights in the motion pictures entitled Coming to America and Coming 2 America (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Works”). The Works are original works of authorship, embodying copyrightable subject matter and subject to the full protection of the copyright laws of the United States. Paramount Pictures has complied with all requirements and formalities of the Copyright Act with respect to the Works. Paramount Pictures has obtained copyright registration certificates from the United States Copyright Office for each of the Works. Documents showing the registration of a representative sample of the Works are attached collectively as Exhibit 1 (See, e.g., U.S. Copyright Registration Numbers PA0000376420; PA0002280086). Background of the Works: Coming to America was a huge commercial success and the second highest-grossing movie of 1988, and remains immensely popular despite premiering over 30 years ago. See Exhibit 2 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1988/. Coming to America is an American romantic come | JMC misused Paramount Pictures’ intellectual property to deceive parents and children into believing that the Infringing Restaurant is affiliated with, or authorized by, Paramount Pictures. To make matters worse, the quality of the food is in serious question, as consumers have reported feeling discomfort after eating at the Infringing Restaurant. See Exhibit 25. The foregoing harm is irreparable and is exacerbated by the fact that in the Infringing Restaurants and in associated marketing materials, JMC has intentionally displayed and reproduced the copyrighted images, characters, costumes, and character names, and derivative works thereof, from the Works. JMC created, displayed, and reproduced the Infringing Materials willfully, and in knowing disregard of Paramount Pictures’ copyrights, of which JMC was on notice long before it began its infringing conduct. On information and belief, all of JMC’s conduct described herein has been and continues to be willful, wanton, and in bad faith, and none has been with the authorization or consent of Paramount Pictures. Federal Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. § 501) As stated above, the Works are original works of auth | Closed | Paramount Pictures Corporation | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | JMC POP UPS LLC | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0111 | infringement | Livestream debate with another Youtuber | **SECTION I: BACKGROUND AND FACTS** I am a Youtuber and Twitch streamer who goes by the alias “Acerthorn.” My Youtube channel can be found at the url of www.youtube.com/c/acerthorn, and my Twitch channel can be found at the url of www.twitch.tv/acerthorn. On May 16, 2021, I did a live stream on Twitch, which I later transferred to Youtube, known as “Acerthorn's Credibility as a Reviewer (w/ Montyspa on Co-Commentary).” As of the time of this writing, this video can be found at the url of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDKSx4oi-r0. On January 17, 2022, I registered the copyright for this stream with the Copyright Office. Its copyright registration number is PA0002340792. At timestamp 2:17:55 – 2:18:23, you can see me giving a smug smile while I put my fingers together in a very smug manner. It is a long video, so to keep you from having to navigate to the timestamp manually, you can click on this link to take you to that timestamp directly: https://youtu.be/iDKSx4oi-r0?t=8275. There is a Youtube channel called “Acerthorn the True Acerthorn,” or ATTA for short, which is dedicated to harassing me, doxxing me, impersonating me (as evidenced by the channel's name), and inf | $15,000 in statutory damages, both to compensate me for loss of licensing royalties, and also to teach Google a lesson about giving people the run-around after they file technically perfect DMCA Takedown Notices. | Closed | David A Stebbins | none | Google LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0110 | infringement | Medical Device | Website sells my patented medical device without my consent, misleading people about treatment and endangering the health of patients. These devices should be sold only in medical institutions after consultation with a doctor. | Damage is estimated at $5,000-20,000 | Closed | Eckart Klobe | none | Pectushealing | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0109 | infringement | Composition | A)Title 17 Sec 501 B) Distribution and selling of copyrighted material C) I never was paid for a license. | Loss of income I was never paid Lost sync licensing opportunities I want statutory damages | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | KOBALT MUSIC PUBLISHING AMERICA, INC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0108 | infringement | Black and white silver gelatin photograph of 4 elderly men in front of a store with "Sunglass Corner" written on the storefront window. This image was made in 1980. | December 8, 2021 at 9:50 pm the respondent, Nathaniel Ladson sent a text message with an exact rendering of the copyrighted image "Sunglass Corner" attached, to a friend of mine and gallery owner for consideration in an upcoming exhibition. The text also included a picture of Nathaniel Ladson standing in front of "Sunglass Corner" (with his name on it) hung on a wall at a Georgianna's Joint in Manhattan, NY. He has also used "Sunglass Corner" as his cover image on Facebook. | As a photographer for over 40 years, "Sunglass Corner" is my signature photographic piece. It is the image that I am known for and is easily recognizable as my work. "Sunglass Corner" helped to launch my career. It has been published and exhibited widely. I have collectors who have purchased limited editions, valued at $1500 each. Copying and reproducing "Sunglass Corner" in any way, reduces its value. My collectors bought and paid for the emotional sentiment evoked by this image- four elderly men from a different time standing as present day sentries to the Village of Harlem, New York. The high contrast and soft grainy texture is indicative of the style I've created, by using the same materials in processing and printing my images. Reproducing the image cheapens and devalues it tremendously. I've invested years, time and money honing my craft and skill as a self-taught photographer. This infringement has also threatened my reputation as a professional. I can't have the authenticity of my work questioned at this stage of my career. I have had my attorneys send letters to cease and desist all activities. They've also had phone conversations with Mr. Ladson, that resulted in hi | Closed | Cheryl Miller | none | Nathaniel Ladson | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0107 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I am requesting that Jamie Park's post continues to be removed from the Google search results, as the post contains material that was taken from my original post that took an immense amount of time and effort to share to my audience. Moreover, submitting the original DMCA report as well as this follow-up report has been extremely time-consuming in an effort to showcase proper objective evidence, and has taken away from the time I could have spent on my business and has in turn affected my overall revenue. I believe all creative work should be protected under the Copyright Law to protect the author's integrity and the amount of hard work and effort dedicated to creating each original post. | Closed | Elle Hong | none | Jamie Park | Order Granting Request to Link Jamie Park with the Jamie Park party |
| 22-CCB-0106 | infringement | Medical Device | Website sells my patented medical device without my consent, misleading people about treatment, and endangering the health of patients. These devices should be sold only in medical institutions after consultation with a doctor. | Damage is estimated at $5,000-20,000 | Closed | Eckart Klobe | none | Igor Naumov | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0105 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption | Not available | See caption | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0104 | infringement | Composition | TITLE 17 US CODE SECTION 501 Willful Infringement Artist (Montana of 300) distributed and sold producer(LANGSTON M CHILDS) works with out written permission or a license. This violates producer(LANGSTON M CHILDS) exclusive and non exclusive rights to his works. | Statutory damages. I also have had severe surgeries, I am handicapped and disabled. I want to be paid 15k-30k per work infringed. | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | WALTER A BRADFORD | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0103 | infringement | The Skunkman Comic Book Series Vol. VI with Illustrations | Breach of a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Paragraph 5, Misappropriation of Registered Copyrighted Material, Unlawful Acquisition, Misrepresentation, Passive Use | Emotional and Mental Anguish, Misappropriation, Infringement of Registered Copyrighted Material, Misrepresentation, Attorney Fees, Expenses | Closed | Richard Kray | none | Matthew Helderman | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0102 | infringement | 2-D Artwork (chart explaining the different types of beer) | The infringing party has been selling a design that is plainly a copy of our copyrighted design. | Our revenue has been hurt by customers choosing to purchase this cheaper, infringing product over our original design. We have sold our product for nearly a decade, and it is deeply associated with our brand. The infringing product is creating confusion in the marketplace because it looks so similar to ours that customers might believe it actually is Pop Chart Lab's product. | Closed | Pop Chart Lab, Inc. | none | Shenzhenshi Yijiangnan Dianzishangwu Youxiangongsi | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0101 | infringement | Article I published on a new paradigm I created for leader development | On his web site, Mr. Tobias plagiarized text from my copyrighted article. The following text was taken, almost word-for-word, from my article: The ALFA program begins with AU faculty working with the agency director to identify 1-3 difficult organizational challenges along with identifying an executive sponsor for each challenge. AU faculty then meet with each executive sponsor to assess the suitability of the problem for the Action Learning process; clarify the roles of the AU faculty, executive sponsor, and the team members; and provide guidance in selecting an effective Action Learning team. The executive sponsor for each challenge then selects Action Learning teams comprising 6-7 people each. Days 1-3:The first three days are classroom-based and focused on developing the leadership competencies necessary to utilize the Action Learning methodology. The class will focus on such skills as active listening, asking powerful questions, reflection, strategic thinking, and problem solving. Each team member is required to select one or more personal leadership developmental goals on which to work during the Action Learning process. Participants are challenged to let go of ingr | In 2009, as an independent consultant, I created this award-winning leadership development program, and have offered it ever since then, for a substantial fee, to individual and organizational clients all over the world. By copying my text, Mr. Tobias has made it impossible for me to market my program in Washington DC to Federal Government agencies. Agency clients will purchase Mr, Tobias's program rather than mine, since he has the imprimatur of American University, while I am an independent consultant without the ability to market as intensively as Mr. Tobias. I seek $30,000 in relief. | Closed | Robert Kramer | none | Robert Tobias | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0100 | 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 The Village Restaurant LLC, Brittany R. Havely, Joe Havely, Lorene A. Singleton, and Roger A. Singleton (collectively the "Respondents") owned, operated, maintained, and controlled the commercial business known as Indian Village Restaurant & Lounge located at 12 North J Street, Lakeview, OR 97630 (the “Establishment”) on the date of the Program. Responde | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | The Village Restaurant LLC d/b/a Indian Village Restaurant & Lounge | Final Determination |
| 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. | Loss of license fee; loss of credit line/CMI Seeking $10,000 in statutory damages and any awardable attorney's fees for respondent's bad faith refusal to remove the work without a takedown notice and its refusal to negotiate pre-suit. | Closed | John Durant | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | Soho Taco Gourmet Taco Catering LLC | Order Dismissing 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 | Claimant seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Respondents’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Claimant’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Arif Skyline Cafe LLC | Order Confirming Proposed Default Determination |
| 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 | I am the owner of the photos They were used to make profits for the band in the photos and other bands also on the venue bill , they were publicly shown in 2 newspapers , in ad flyers hung all over 2 Ohio Counties , it was broadcast on the Rock Radio Stations and ads all over Facebook . I am seeking the Maximum I can get in damages and I am seeking no further use of any of my photos again by this Man for his band | Closed | Cyndi Wofton | none | Gary E MARKASKY | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0096 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption | Not available | See caption | The Copyright Claims Board dismissed this claim on November 8, 2022 because an amended claim was not filed in the time allowed. The Board finds that the Order to Show Cause filed on October 7, 2022, and extended on October 28, 2022, is now moot. |
| 22-CCB-0095 | -DMCA | NA | NA | As a self-employed person - journalist and analyst on a freelance, my articles are my only source of income, and the specialty and uniqueness of my work help me to support myself. So, the use of my intellectual property (my articles) without my permission deprives me of my means of livelihood. Based on that, I kindly ask you to oblige the resource komentish.com and online service provider Google.com to remove my articles from the website komentish.com and Google search results. | Closed | Ruslan Barabanov | none | Виталий Богачев | Order Dismissing 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 | As a result of this infringement and unlicensed use of Nicole Punzi's likeness, I have lost out on my standard fee of $2775 for limited content use - if a video is to be used in ads I charge an additional $1500 and if it will be used in perpetuity and additional $1000. Additionally, I have lost out on more than 1.8 million views which amounts to $720, or $.04 per view. The lost followers, likes, and views cannot be easily quantified because all of my future brand deals will now pay less as they have stolen those follows, likes, and views from me. Brands determine how much they will pay a partner based on engagement rate which is now marred because of these lost numbers. I am seeking my standard content fee of $2775, $1000 for use in perpetuity, $720 in lost creator fund fees, all fees associated with claim and subsequent case, and any damages amassed by them utilizing my content on their platform. I leave it to the Copyright Claims Board to determine any additional damages, but I would ask that you consider all of the aforementioned, as well as, the emotional damage, stress, and time that this issue has taken on me as an individual coming up against a multi-million dollar c | Closed | Jennifer Lee | none | Doing Things Media | Order Dismissing 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." | Horton Records is committing copyright infringement upon two compositions to which claimant is owner: "Black Cherry," and "Desiree." Section 106 of the Copyright Act of 1976 grants five exclusive rights to the copyright proprietor of a musical composition: (1) "to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;" (2) "to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;" (3) "to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public;" (4) "to perform the copyrighted work publicly;" (5) "to display the copyrighted work publicly." Horton Records is selling, reproducing, distributing, displaying, and performing an unpublished composition in which Claimant is owner, titled: "Black Cherry." Horton failed to give any notice to date. Horton paid no Licensing Fees, Royalties, nor Monies for any negotiated licenses, nor Compulsory licenses. Under Section 115, Horton had 30 days after the recording was made, to give notice of intent to use song. Royalty payments must be made "on or before the twentieth day of each month and shall include all royalties for the month next proceeding. Each monthly payment shall be made under oath..." 17USC app. sec 11 | Closed | James Markham | none | Horton Records, LTD. | DownloadOrder Dismissing Claim With Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0092 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption | Not available | See caption | Order Closing Case |
| 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. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | Namita Nayyar | Order Dismissing 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 | CourseHorse.com and The Paint Place’s unauthorized commercial use of my photograph of my artwork that I’m using in current and future creative content and marketing not only reduces the value of my photo, but it implies a connection between myself and these companies that doesn’t exist. The many “BYOB Painting: Paint Pouring” art classes at two New York City art studios being sold on CourseHorse.com and/or The Paint Place for $60 per person with twenty student classes over the course of multiple years, using my photograph as the primary advertising image on their websites, generated revenue for one or both of these companies that I received no compensation for. Internet traffic to my painting tutorial article that includes this photograph has gone down in the last several years as search engines view a photo appearing on multiple websites as duplicate content and de-prioritize the site in search results, which reduces my earnings from this article. As a result of CourseHorse.com and The Paint Place’s usage of my photograph on their websites, this photo has circulated online and has been posted on at least two other unaffiliated websites that provided details about these cl | Closed | Carolyn Kelley | none | CourseHorse | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0089 | infringement | product description | Infringers have copied our work to describe their products. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | lead creation inc | none | Qiping Liu | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0088 | infringement | product description | The linked text plagiarizes our work | The link violated our copyright and caused serious damage to our economic interests, and we demand compensation of $30,000. | Closed | lead creation inc | none | Amazon.com, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0087 | infringement | product description | plagiarized our work | Infringed our intellectual property rights, we demand compensation of 5,000 US dollars | Closed | lead creation inc | none | zhang xincheng | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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. | Since this is the second time that I've been taken advantage of by a publishing company, this situation took a toll on my mental health. The thought of someone else taking credit and making money off my work made me physically ill and caused severe depression. I was left in financial strains that affected my livelihood and was almost evicted. I've reached out to the online sites to have the files transferred and continue to get an automated response. I paid an estimated amount of $5,000 and have no idea how many books have been sold or the amount that is owed to me. I had to stop promoting my book and take down my websites. This situation also made me an open target to thieves trying to steal my intellectual property and plagiarizing my book on their IG and Facebook pages. I've made both local police and the FBI reports on the people I believe were doing this. I have not sent a takedown notice because I do not wish to have the book removed, I would rather have the account transferred under my name and royalties paid. If that is not an option and the book is taken down, I ask that I be compensated what's owed along with compensation to be able to recreate my dream elsewhere. 3 years | Closed | April A Phillips | none | Amazon Legal Department | Order Dismissing 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." | The respondents' co-opting of my work without attribution has deprived my ability to capitalize on the work. Estimates of the responses earnings from this infringement are in excess of $1,000,000.00. I am asking for attribution and the maximum allowable fine within this venue. | Closed | Jarhid A Brown | none | Billie E Eilish | Order Dismissing 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. | I feel that I should be back-paid, present-paid, future-paid, and publicly acknowledged for my original contributions to successfully realized product developments because such negligence against me defames me, or prevents me from becoming famous, blocking me from any major financial successes in life. As a result, I am asking for my name to be added to the labels of all of the past, present, and future Hasbro, Inc. Groovy Peppa products and for me to collect all of my past, present, and future earnings for creating the Hasbro, Inc. entire Groovy Peppa product line in a negotiated royalty payment split between Hasbro, Inc. and myself. | Closed | Stephen M Richards | none | Hasbro, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | I never was paid for my work. I had a severe spine surgery. I am disabled. I need to be paid for the damages. | Closed | Langston M Childs | none | Empire Distribution INC | Order Dismissing 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 | Claimant seeks maximum statutory damages ($15,000). Respondent's behavior in almost 11 months of negotiations demonstrated bad faith, forcing this filing; therefore, Claimant also seeks maximum attorney's fees. | Certified | Martin McNeil | Burns the Attorney, Inc. | Blackbelt TV, Inc. | Exhibit A to Reply: McNeil post-order declaration |
| 22-CCB-0081 | -DMCA-noninfringement | NA | NA | Everyday that the app isn't on Google Play, we lose at least $1,000 of business. If the app doesn't return to Google Play, that is a financial loss of over $150,000 invested to design, build and market the app | Closed | Hiro LLC | none | Dragvertising LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0080 | infringement | Photograph of wine bottle | Respondent used subject images in online advertising without licensing or otherwise obtaining permission from Claimant. | Statutory damages in the maximum permissible by law Respondent's profits attributable to the infringements Claimant's costs and attorney fees | Closed | Alan DeHerrera | Law Office of Eric Ridley | G. K. Skaggs, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0079 | infringement-DMCA- | Image of Michael Jordan mid-air, dunking basketball | Listing derivative products on Etsy | Market dilution, consumer confusion, direct damages as a result of infringing sales. | Closed | Goatpix, LLC | Law Office of Eric Ridley | Raul Matei | Order Dismissing 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Helayne Seidman | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Golden Tax Relief LLC | Order Dismissing 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Christopher Sadowski | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Joltbike LLC | Order Dismissing 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Steven Hirsch | The Law Firm of Higbee and Associates | Source Digital Inc | Order Dismissing 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. | - $30,000 - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits | Closed | Brian Totin | none | BRIGHTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC | Order Dismissing 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. | We are seeking to prevent the respondent from selling our copyrighted products in the U.S.A and compensation for the units they sold since the effective date on our copyright registration (01/26/2022). | Closed | Market On Mainstreet | none | Yek Cheong Lau | Reissue Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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 | I am seeking maximum statutory damages, the costs of this action and such other amounts as the Court deems proper and within the limit authorized by this Court. The respondents acts of infringement were not only willful, intentional, and purposeful, but also in complete disregard of and indifference to claimants’ rights. Accordingly, claimant is entitled to judgment in its favor and against each respondent, jointly and severally, for statutory damages, in the discretion of the Board. By failing to obtain Petitioner’s authorization to use the Copyrighted Work or to compensate Petitioner for their various uses, Respondents have avoided payment of license fees and other financial costs associated with obtaining permission to exploit the Copyrighted Work, as well as the restrictions that Petitioner is entitled to and would place on any such exploitation as conditions for Petitioner’s permission, including the right to deny permission altogether The Respondents have certainly gained an undeserved and unknown amount of revenue/profit from the derivatives by exploiting my original music. This has caused an immeasurable amount of damage, damaging credibility, sullied my origina | Closed | Kenneth D Erwin | none | Mass Appeal Records LLC | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | The clamant has suffered by usage of these songs without being duly compensated with royalties that are required for usage of the songs. As a result, the claimant is seeking $30,000 for the payment of royalties. | Closed | 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 | Final Determination Dismissing Claim With Prejudice |
| 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. | Plaintiff is seeking statutory damages. The infringement happened on 4/23/2022 and Plaintiff filed for a copyright on 6/8/2022 (within the 3 month time frame of an infringement to qualify for statutory damages) the U.S.Copyright Office acknowledged receipt of Plaintiffs registration and on 7/3/2022 Plaintiff was granted a copyright. It is best for Plaintiff to seek statutory damages of $30,000 in this venue as it would be a laborious and costly legal fight to seek disgorment of profits of Respondents attributable to their infringement and to include the value of all gains, advantages, benefits of Respondents would exceed the $30,000 limit that this board is authorized to adjudicate. | Closed | Darnell Riley-Perez | none | Turner Broadcasting Sysytems, Inc. | Order Dismissing 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 | I entered into an agreement in good faith and Greg Boehm fulfilled as agreed for a few years and then stopped. $5,000 is nowhere near the amount owed, but it would be sufficient. I would then like to either terminate the agreement or renew it with the new Mud Puddle owners, but with assurance I will get paid. | Closed | Oliver D Finnigan 3 | none | Greg Boehm | Order Dismissing 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. | She is selling my art as a file, which is allowing others to create what they want and continue to sell my work without my permission. I am constantly doing take down notices because people are buying her file and selling their own products. I’m looking for the maximum of $30,000 in relief since she clearly refuses to stop stealing my art and causing me to work extremely hard to keep up with others selling my art. She has tried to sell it 4 different ways on Etsy to “beat the system” and continue to profit off of stolen art. I’ve tried to contact her personally many times but she ignores me, and Etsy won’t do anything unless I personally use my money to bring a lawsuit against her. | Closed | Anne Lesniak | none | Leah Tuttle | Order Dismissing 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 | The fact that over a million viewers have now seen my work, with my name and YouTube channel notated at the bottom of the first video clip from their hatchet work to my good name has caused and grave long term harm to me and me work. The fact that they chose to ignore all the other compelling evidence on the compilation video that they culled for their supposed debunking evidence is proof of ill will and malice towards me that was completely unprovoked from me. Indeed, I only just happened to find out what they had done while viewing various YouTube clips on the subject and recognized my work. | Closed | John C Martin | none | Corridor Digital, LLC, dba. Corridor Crew | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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 | Plaintiff seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Defendants’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Fusion Groups, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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 | Plaintiff seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Defendants’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Jesses Pizza LLC | Order Dismissing 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 | Plaintiff seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Defendants’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Cabo Tacos & Beer Inc. | Order Dismissing 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 | Plaintiff seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $15,000.00 for the Defendants’ willful violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Dollar Hits Temple, Inc. | Order Dismissing 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 | Plaintiff seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $30,000.00 for the Defendants’ willful violations of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Tiki Sports Lounge and Grill LLC | Order Dismissing Claim With Prejudice |
| 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 | Plaintiff seeks statutory damages in the discretion of the Board, of up to the maximum amount of $30,000.00 for the Defendants' willful violations of 17 U.S.C. § 501 and for Plaintiff’s attorney's fees, interest, and costs of proceedings. | Closed | Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. | Jekielek & Janis | Wolves Enterprise LLC d/b/a La Barrita Bar | Order Dismissing 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 | I suffered extreme mental and physical ailment due to the harassment and bullying, The stress and anxiety and the incredible amount of loss of sleep due to the strain of having my art stolen. I received a huge loss to my business and loss of sales due to etsys incredible reach and platform millions of people were able to view the defamatory listing and reviews and allowing another shop to sell my art has diluted my brand and destroyed my business. | Closed | charlotte Salcedo | none | Etsy | Order Dismissing 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 | See my section on "describe the infringement." | Closed | David A Stebbins | none | Twitch Interactive, Inc. | Order Dismissing 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 | I have lost a synchronization and master recording license fee, as well as performance royalties, for both the original creation and broadcast/streaming of this motion picture, as well as losing license fees for the subsequent streaming on YouTube. This is an unlicensed use of my copyrighted composition and sound recording. In addition to this loss, once Mr. Chen's false counter-notification is processed, the infringing content will go back online, where it will continue to be monetized by both Mr. Chen and YouTube, resulting in continuing loss of income by me, the owner of the work, and a continuing erosion of my rights under copyright law. | Closed | Kirbyko Music LLC | none | Kevin Chen | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | complete market failure due to devaluation of claimant's intellectual property rights and claimant's ability to exercise exclusive distribution and display rights. | Certified | Michelle Shocked | none | James Billington | Order to Submit Written Testimony |
| 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. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | David Vignola | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | The claimants primary source of income is through the licensing of photographic imagery. This infringer used the claimants copyrighted imagery without permission, payment, or license, depriving the claimant of their primary source of income from works created for such purpose. | Closed | Dana Hursey | none | Lavaca LLC | Final Determination |
| 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. | My artistic works have been shown in the TV series, entitled "Greenleaf", in which I am still seeking punitive and statutory damages for the use of my work, which has apparently been out on the black market due to my work not being fully protected by the US Copyright Office. | Closed | Freda J Day | none | Day | Order Dismissing 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/. | Through ilegally selling my products at less than 10% of the original price, the owner of the website is harming my business as well as committing a crime here in Brazil. I claim that the page containing my produt is taken down and he is prevented from putting it up again. | Closed | Mapas da Lulu Comercio de Ebooks Ltda | none | Pirata Digital | Order Dismissing 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. | The respondents produced a derivative work, an TV mini-series, based on my which was under option by an independent producer at the time. The respondents refuse to provide any royalties or monetary compensation. | Closed | Scott Decker | none | Kelly Souders | DownloadOrder Dismissing 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. | The majority of my work comes from referrals both direct and indirect. By not crediting me with use of the images, Mr Shellenberger is denying me a potentially wide audience of prospective clients. He also has been using my images without paying licensing fees for nearly 2.5 years. I am seeking statutory damages. | Closed | Gabriel Harber | none | Michael Shellenberger | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | Due to the fact that they'd been circulating my book for free, my income significantly dropped until I filed a DMCA with Google. They issued a counter notification, stating that they belong to a group where they have access to such material. I'm copying and pasting their allegation here: Respondent 1: "I am authorised to use the materials on this addresses as the materials published are available for public use and distribution in Chinese language. We translated these copies to English for our audience" Respondent 2: "I am not the owner, but I am authorized to use the content" "Hello, This item wasn't lifted from the quoted website, rather it's a material that's accessible in the public domain (although must use a translator to access it fully). We belong to a group where we have access to these materials to use, share, read, etc." My book was NEVER translated. It was and still is only in English. I would know if my book was available in a different language. And it's a lie that the second respondent is authorize to use the material. I didn't and still don't authorize his use. Relief sought: court order to compel the removal of infringing material. | Closed | Christina Wong | none | Ebenezer Obasi | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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 | I am the only company that sells these fairy wings designs in any format, and did not license SHEIN to sell these images. SHEIN is profiting off of my IPs without permission or payment to me, which deprives me of potential licensing income from my own IP. The sales of my images as cheap stickers dilutes their value, and when in addition they're displaying models wearing knock-offs of those designs, it implies to the public that I am collaborating with their company somehow when I am absolutely not. In fact, I would not choose to work with this company as the entire economy of 'fast fashion' and the negative impact it has on the environment conflicts with my values. I am seeking the maximum amount of damages that the CCB deems I should be awarded, should they decide in my favor. | Closed | Angela M Jarman | none | SHEIN Distribution Corporation | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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 | Cat 6 equipment damaged my vocal s and blocked my broadcast. We are currently getting a MRI soon but we are damaged. | Closed | Danny A Valentine Shabazz | none | Robert Diggs | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | Shut down of Sovereign Sweets and Eone. Mental harm and physical harm due to no pay and no products. | Closed | 47th and 7th LLC | none | Entertainment One | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | Profiting off of my artwork copyright property. I wish for them to cease the selling and distribution of my artwork. | Closed | Cathy Pham | none | Mark O Harris | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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 | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger | Certified | Oaks | Higbee & Associates | Heart of Gold Pageant System Inc. | Notice Regarding Partial Dismissal in Proposed Default Determination |
| 22-CCB-0045 | infringement | aerial photograph of building | Display of infringed work on website | Statutory damages | Closed | David G Oppenheimer | L/O Lawrence G Townsene | Douglas A Prutton | Final Determination |
| 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. | We just need to protect the copyrighted work of our client. | Closed | Copyrights Protection | none | HA Sports Studio | Order Denying 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 | market failure of my own self-distribution efforts due to willful infringement that encouraged other distributors to engage in similar activity | Closed | Michelle Shocked | none | Tunecore, Inc | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | On May 1, 2021, Respondent showed its subscribers for profit the Claimant's duly registered copyrighted motion picture (which had been short-listed for an Oscar), and for which licenses could cost $7500 per showing or more without obtaining permission from Claimant. | Closed | Myfilms (dba Mayfilms) | Law Office of Julian Lowenfeld | Matvil, Inc. d/b/a etv.net | Order Dismissing 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 | 3 Years of Hard work, thousands of dollars, chronic stress, and time wasted dealing with this. | Closed | RealToonTV Productions & Entertainment LLC | none | Larry Smiley | Order Dismissing 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 suffers direct economic losses due to the tortious interference by GGL Projects. Relevant Ads existing and prospective online customers are illicitly drawn away to the Sitejabber.com website in which Sitejabber sells a competing offering. Relevant Ads Customer-X has been lured to Sitejabbers website through their promotion of the “Local Splash” term to search engines and, as a result, it has caused Customer-X to sever their services contract. Moreover, Customer-X has gone on to provide material benefit to GGL Projects, Inc. through usage of the Sitejabber.com website including purchasing the Sitejabber "paid plan". Sitejabber’s "paid plan" is a service that competes for the same, or very similar, service offer that Relevant Ads provides. Relevant Ads has a direct loss of revenue due to the severed agreement of Customer-X is $3,289 as well as damages to process the loss. | Closed | Relevant Ads, Inc. | none | GGL Projects, Inc | Reissue Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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. | 30,000 dollars and the removal.of the equipment at 727 Market St. Wilmington De 19891. It's harm to my body and people have died since they breached the NDA. | Closed | Danny Amen Valentine Shabazz | none | Chris Bruce | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | I am seeking compensation for using my music without getting permission and licensing to do so. Unauthorized use of my music is priceless at this time because it is ongoing everytime it's played on tv, radio, concerts and other musical outlets. We are seeking the maximum relief allowed. | Closed | Elton J White Sr | none | Jay Rowe | Order Dismissing 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. | The Claimant was not compensated for the the use of his original artwork. The Claimant requests all profits made by Respondent from the sale of the Halloween masks and costumes. | Closed | Thomas E Wood | Ray Wood, Attorney at Law | Spirit Halloween Superstores LLC | Order Dismissing 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. | The harm was monetary and involves statutory damages | Closed | Barry W Rosen | none | Patricia A Claren | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0035 | -DMCA | NA | NA | As a result of this, the content is not available to users attempting to reach it. Due to marketing and other outreach efforts which cost hundreds of dollars per month to send interested users to the content (via the website https://passportapp.io and directly to the Chrome Web Store, where it is unavailable), this is resulting in active monetary harm. The relief I seek is for the claim to be withdrawn, and for the respondent to cease filing takedown notices with false statements. | Closed | Michael Flores | none | Michael Mitrakos | Final Determination |
| 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 | Users mislead Servers bandwidth used Brand with Logo used | Closed | Copyright Brand Protection Pvt. Ltd | none | HA Sports Studio | Order Denying 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 | I am entitled to damages because this was no accident. Tara Pirnia has practiced this kind of fraud and deception before. In documentation which I will attach I will demonstrate that she has a history of legal actions being brought against her to collect on rents, wages, and other monies that went unpaid due to her repeated deliberate actions meant to defraud others. Copies of these complaints are attached, as well as a list of all small claims cases brought against her. As recently as 2021, a complaint was filed by Amanda Raymond, the writer and director of a feature film Tara Pirnia produced. The cause of action was breach of contract. In the complaint the Amanda Raymond states that Tara Pirnia had no intention of paying the deferred compensation, contingent compensation or travel expenses as outlined in her contract. A copy of the complaint is attached. In my case, Tara Pirnia took one script I wrote and used it for two shows. She then resold these shows around the world in streaming and international distribution deals, including DVDs. While her career advanced into the area of directing feature films, with accompanying self=promoting interviews and red carpets, my contr | Closed | Dan Barton | none | Tara Pirnia | Order Dismissing 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. | The infringer was afforded many opportunities to contact me thru online communication.A formal cease and desist letter and multiple DMCA take down notices were issued to their web host. The defendant is knowing of the infringement and willfully continuing to disregard the law. They have willfully failed to communicate and cease their copyright infringement. Copies of these designs have been found on Etsy and Amazon. My main source of income comes from sales on the Etsy platform. The financial harm caused by competing with unauthorized copies of my designs is one concern. Copies of my designs are being placed into brick and mortar establishments because the defendant is selling these designs through large, national trade shows. This distribution is allowing retailers to sell infringing goods throughout the world. Their actions are causing unknowing retailers to resell infringing goods and also leading them to copyright infringement claims. Because I voluntarily do not sell at a wholesale level, it has caused irreparable damage to the uniqueness of my designs. When a consumer sees unauthorized copies of my design in a retail establishment, the design is not considered to be an artist | Closed | ROBERT SAPA | none | PUKA CREATIONS LLC | Order Dismissing 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger. | Closed | Steven Hirsch | Higbee & Associates | Southern Chinese Daily News, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0030 | -DMCA | NA | NA | Actual Damages and Profits: It is estimated by the use of Spotify streaming revenue calculators, in conjunction with information obtained via the spotify for artists website that the infringing party has taken roughly $40,000 in Spotify streaming royalties for Solfeggio Harmonics Vol.1 alone. Specific amounts prior to an injunction into the account’s records are not available, but could be much higher depending on the duration and degree of the offense. Royalties from Amazon, Pandora and other streaming services as well as digital downloads from iTunes and other digital download stores are only visible through the TuneCore account records. Statutory Damages: The infringing party has interfered with the publication, distribution and accounting mechanisms of Source Vibrations music by defrauding the account (TuneCore) under the email: fogleolina33@gmail.com. It's my belief that the infringing party altered the original account email, willfully falsified copyright ownership information within the TuneCore account and in statements made directly to TuneCore copyright agents in order to unscrupulously withdraw royalties. This has caused significant distress and financial hardship on | Closed | Jason Wild | none | Deborah A Calkin | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | $15,000 - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits - Omitted attribution induced, facilitated, and encouraged further downstream infringement | Closed | Lane Coder Photography, LLC | Leichtman Law PLLC | Townsquare Media, Inc. | Order Dismissing 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". | $30,000 Statutory Damages False and misleading author information False and misleading publisher information | Closed | Chervalin Publishing Company | none | Alligator Records | Order Dismissing 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. | Claimant: Good Faith vs. Respondent: Bad Faith. As stated in the Wikiwand Post; "Columbia Records rejected the two Chante Soundtracks and granted a one-time-only-release, to Susan Christie, to find an independent recorded label for distribution. Mr. Hill knew that Chante Records had a P&D [deal] with Sam Hodge Sr. of Hodge Record Pressing [P] Co & [D] Distribution by Paramount Wholesale to Retail Stores of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Hill would not sign ownership of the listed agreements (mechanicals/soundtracks) with and to Mr. Alfieri until the Chante Records were pressed and ready for immediate distribution by May 21, 1965. In 2018, Mr. Alfieri's attorney notified Mr.Hill (voice & emails) of the infringements and offered a reasonable settlement of &600,00, for only attorney's fees with complete control over the signed agreements. At the first offer, Mr. Hill was inclined to settle; but, after two weeks, Hill [bad faith] through his attorney off Alfieri a flat fee of $400, and, rereleased full control of the copyrights back to Mr. Hill. Mr. Alfieri is seeking nothing less than the full, CCB amount of, $30,000 plus attorney's fees and full control of the copyrights Note: I will s | Closed | LOUIS D. ALFIERI S | none | JOHN M HILL | Order Dismissing 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." | Mr. Graf is a commercial photographer who relies on the proper licensing of his copyrighted images. Mr. graf has a history of licensing his copyrighted images. Mr. Graf timely registered the image at issue in this case and is eligible for statutory damages. | Closed | Mark Graf | The Law Office of David C. Deal, P.L.C. | Mary Quinn | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | Claimant seeks an award of actual damages and disgorgement of all of Respondent’s profits attributable to the infringement as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(i) and 17 U.S.C. §504(b) in an amount to be proven or, in the alternative, and at Claimant’s election, an award for statutory damages against Respondent in an amount up to $15,000 per work infringed pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1504(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I), whichever is larger | Closed | John Naschinski | Higbee & Associates | Circa Group, LLC | Order Dismissing 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. | The harm suffered is a loss of licensing fees to which the author was entitled had Butter Lutz Interiors properly licensed the images via Claimant. The Claimant is seeking actual damages of $500.00 per image infringed for a total of $13,000.00. | Closed | OTTO Archive LLC | Peppercorn Partners LLC | Butter Lutz Interiors, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 22-CCB-0023 | infringement-DMCA- | PhD's video interview | the use the audio of my interview and these individual mixed with other material | They are misleading my work, and making money for a confidential material. I also think that they intimidate me sending email to my other email. I think that they are the same people who send me death threats from another copyright claim. | Closed | Catalina M Jaramillo | none | Apple Inc. | Order Dismissing 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 | The loss of control of my most popular image, loss of licensing fees. Loss of tracking of use, loss of marking, loss of future income. | Closed | Joshua S Goodrich | Lighthouse Litigation PLLC | Green Line Media | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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 | The individuals who published the material claimed my work with fake notification. They send me death threats that they will kill me if I keep claiming my work. I send all these documents to YouTube and Google. I even open a case of data protection in Ireland. The individuals who published my material are related to a Colombian drug cartel. I opened a case in Colombia because of the intimidation and YouTube ignored it. They even keep online material, which defames me and threatens me. I had to get psychological help, I had panic attacks and I had a problem with my PhD and my personal life. I can not return to the country, I was born because these individuals want to kill me. This claim make my life in danger because I had even been intimidate with the Miami police and FBI. My academic material has been defamed and damaged and my image had been related to prostitution and a drug cartel. I had been the victim of every psychological abuse. I had also spend so much time and money, fighting this fraud of my work. | Closed | Catalina M Jaramillo | none | YouTube | Order Dismissing 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. | Mr. Wright regularly licenses his artwork for minimums in excess of $5,000 per year. The sale of digital files is particularly harmful to the value of the artwork as it floods the market, thereby diminishing its value. | Closed | Jon Q Wright | Axenfeld Law Group, LLC | Geoffrey Potter | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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. | Resulted in having to change the name of the song, and rewrite the lyrics to avoid being accused of plagiarizing my own song due to being an unknown artist in the public eye. Seeking monetary relief due to most likely having to scrap the song all together due to Columbia Records stealing my intellectual property from my iphone for personal gain as if my creative work belongs to them, and is there for them to steal for free. | Closed | Cory D Palmer | none | Columbia Records | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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. | On March 16th, 2022, Zesty Paws intently stole my content from another platform to use on their TikTok. I have messages from Zesty Paws in my direct messages on Instagram dated October 15th 2021, in which they asked permission to use my content. My reply was "which one are you looking at? and let me know what you're thinking". There was never any reply from Zesty Paws and permission was never granted. My brand, Love Margot is trademarked. I am under a contractual obligation with another dog supplement brand. By Zesty Paws illegally using my content under Zesty Paws social profiles implemented to at least 1.4 million people that I represent the Zesty Paws brand when in fact, I never have. I am seeking damages of $30,000. for loss of other brand campaigns. | Closed | Sabrina Giardina | none | Zesty Paws | 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. | Plaintiff lost licensing fees and the market for her work, this photograph in particular, was damaged. Defendant obtained profits from selling advertising against this photograph that should be disgorged. Defendant built the value of its site by exploiting this photograph, and a portion of that value should be disgorged. | Closed | Dana Lixenberg | Doniger / Burroughs | Hypebeast, Ltd. | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0016 | Not available | NA | NA | Not available | Closed | See caption | Not available | See caption | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 22-CCB-0015 | infringement | Full length Young Adult novel; urban fantasy; paranormal | The author is a minority female writer based in Australia. Disney-Hyperion, an imprint and/or subsidiary of the other two respondents, sublicensed the rights to the two titles in question from the author’s primary publisher, HarperCollins Australia via its UK sibling entity, HarperCollins UK (“HCUK”) on 23 September 2010. The author sought a reversion of those rights back from Disney-Hyperion to HarperCollins due to repeated contractual breaches by Disney-Hyperion. Rights were reverted as between Disney-Hyperion and HCUK effective 29 July 2014. On 31 January 2022, HarperCollins Australia reverted the rights to the two titles in question under the head agreement to the author who, on that date, assigned the copyright in those two titles to the claimant. Both HarperCollins Australia and HarperCollins UK have since confirmed to the author and claimant in writing that all rights in the 'Mercy' Series (including Mercy and Exile) by Rebecca Lim have been reverted to the author by both entities and that the author is free to dispose of rights in her works as she will. On 5 March 2022 (Australian time), the author discovered that Disney Publishing has continued to distribute the tw | The claimant seeks statutory damages of $7,500 per title ($15,000 in total for this proceeding) as the continued existence, availability and distribution of the Disney-Hyperion versions have caused reputational damage to the author, lost sales to the author, exposed the author to continued piracy (over a period of successive years, both the author and the claimant have issued multiple DCMA takedown notices from Australia in relation to the Disney version of the titles) and competed with the claimant's own re-issued editions of the two titles. The claimant cannot prove, based on the claimant's relative lack of bargaining power, its jurisdiction of domicile and inability to seek proper discovery and accounting from Disney, through which channels Disney has distributed the two titles, and how Disney has profited from the infringements. | Certified | Morly Investments Pty Ltd (imprint: The High Street Publishing Company) | none | The Walt Disney Company | Claimant's Reply Testimony – Reply Party Statement – 22-CCB-0015 – 15 July 2023 |
| 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. | By reason of the foregoing, Defendant has infringed and continues to infringe, the Dolls Kill Copyrights in violation of, without limitation, the exclusive rights of reproduction and distribution and the exclusive right to prepare derivative works under section 106 of the Copyright Act, and section 501 of the Copyright Act. Defendant’s infringement of the Dolls Kill Copyrights has been and continues to be intentional, willful, and with full knowledge of Dolls Kill’s rights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 505. As a direct and proximate result of its infringing conduct, Defendant has made and will continue to make substantial profits and gains to which it is not entitled to actual damages, and Defendant's profits attributable to Defendant's infringement. Alternatively, Dolls Kill is entitled to the maximum statutory damages, the costs of this action and such other amounts as the Court deems proper and within the limit authorized by this Court. | Closed | Dolls Kill, Inc. | none | Another Chill | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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. | Formal letters to cease and desist unlawful distribution were knowingly ignored and unacted upon, resulting in several works distributed to the public prior to publication. Many of these works were incomplete manuscripts of our authors work. This caused an immeasurable amount of damage to our organization and the author, damaging author credibility, damaging company reputation in the field as a new publishing agency, establishing a significant loss in marking/public credibility and perception, resulting in poor reviews which further damaged sales, and causing extreme mental duress to our author and publication team. | Closed | Tactical Training Academy LLC, DBA Pacific Books | none | Ingram Content Group, Lightning Source LLC | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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 | I intend to ask for statutory damages in the amount of $7,500. I am asking for such damages in order to deter future infringements, as they undermine the integrity of the courses that I teach and the grades that I assign in those courses. | Closed | Benjamin Bronner | none | EssayZoo | Final Determination |
| 22-CCB-0011 | infringement | Four Photographs of The Residences at 66 High Street in Guilford, CT | See supplementary material | See supplementary material | Closed | Dennis Carbo | Higbee & Associates | Luchs Consulting Engineers, LLC | Order Dismissing 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 | The use of my IP by Paris Hilton companies has harmed my market, by exposing it to potentially millions of people without my name attached. My infringements of this IP have increased greatly in the last 3 years but especially in the last 2. I believe these infringements played a part in that by giving Paris' viewers the impression that my IP is a freely available work to use should they find it being distributed (illegally) online. I believe it may also be causing brand confusion between myself and a competing fairy wing maker, HelloFaerie, who engaged in slandering me a few years ago when she was trying to compete in the market. HelloFaerie has been providing Paris with her fairy wings for the last 2 or 3 years. Her business was built upon the foundation my work created. Since these infringements, I have been incorrectly credited or tagged as the wing maker in posts showing HelloFaerie's work quite a few times. This has been adding insult to injury. I am seeking roughly $12,000 in relief, based on previous copyright settlements for online displays of my work and due to the frequency with which the same IP has been infringed by Paris / 11:11 Digital. | Closed | Angela M Jarman | none | 11:11 Digital | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | Both the sound recording and composition have been blatant and intentional acts of infringement by Ravestra. DM tried to negotiate with them, but had no response. DM asked them to take down the infringing material, but they did not. DM is requesting the maximum award for damages. | Closed | DM Records, Inc. | none | RAVESTA, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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 | These images were created specifically for Bucks Book and for the official website promoting the trip. Some of the images will appear in the book but have lost their value because I have lost control of them. Mr. Mandrell stated in his text the vindictive nature of his use of these images. Because of Mr. Mandrell's activities the images may not be used in the book. And if they are at a significant loss in value. | Final Determination filed | Daniel C Corjulo | none | Scott Mandrell | Final Determination |
| 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. | $30,000 (15 x 2) - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits - Omitted attribution induced, facilitated, and encouraged further downstream infringement - Creation and exploitation of unauthorized derivative work. | Closed | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Hayride Media, LLC | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice |
| 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. | By failing to obtain Petitioner’s authorization to use the Copyrighted Work or to compensate Petitioner for their various uses, Respondents have avoided payment of license fees and other financial costs associated with obtaining permission to exploit the Copyrighted Work, as well as the restrictions that Petitioner is entitled to and would place on any such exploitation as conditions for Petitioner’s permission, including the right to deny permission altogether. | Closed | Max Kauffman | Howard O. Bernstein, P.C. | National Business Media, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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. | $15,000 - Statutory damages - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits - Omitted attribution induced, facilitated, and encouraged further downstream infringement | Final Determination filed | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Rule 62, Inc. | Denial of Request for Reconsideration Determination |
| 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 | LOST LICENSING FEES, DEFENDANTS ILL GAINED PROFITS, DEVALUATION OF WORKS. SEEKING ACTUAL DAMAGES AND PROFITS, OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE, STATUTORY DAMAGES. SEEKING COSTS OF SUIT. | Closed | JEFFREY B SEDLIK | none | CULINARY INVESTMENTS, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim Without Prejudice |
| 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. | $15,000 - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits - Omitted attribution induced, facilitated, and encouraged further downstream infringement - Used beyond temporal limitation and scope of license | Closed | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. | Order Dismissing Claim |
| 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 | By failing to obtain Petitioner’s authorization to use the Copyrighted Work or to compensate Petitioner for their various uses, Respondents have avoided payment of license fees and other financial costs associated with obtaining permission to exploit the Copyrighted Work, as well as the restrictions that Petitioner is entitled to and would place on any such exploitation as conditions for Petitioner’s permission, including the right to deny permission altogether. | Closed | Max Kauffman | Howard O. Bernstein, P.C. | AAS Printing Inc. d/b/a Ink Monster | Order Dismissing Without Prejudice - AAS Printing Inc. |
| 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. | $15,000 - Statutory damages - Lost license fees/royalties - Disgorgement of Respondent’s profits - False and missing attribution induced, facilitated, and encouraged further downstream infringement | Closed | Julie Dermansky | Leichtman Law PLLC | Yellowhammer Multimedia, LLC | Order Dismissing Claim |