Entertainment & Sports
Aug. 10, 2011
Action film's legal maneuver falls flat
The studio behind last year's action film "The Expendables," filed an unusual, hulking copyright lawsuit against more than 23,000 unnamed defendants who allegedly downloaded the film illegally.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
If the studio behind last year's action film "The Expendables" hoped its hulking copyright lawsuit would intimidate more than 23,000 unnamed defendants into settling, the punch landed flat.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied a discovery request by Los Angeles studio Nu Image Inc. that it be allowed to learn each defendant's name and physical address by requesting the...
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