Intellectual Property
Jun. 10, 2014
Federal Circuit increases burden on copyright trolls
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit dealt a severe blow to this Joe Doe lawsuit approach to file-sharing copyright infringements.
Ben Depoorter
Professor
UC Hastings College of the Law
Email: depoorter@uchastings.edu
Ben is Sunderland chair and professor of law at UC Hastings College of the Law and affiliate scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. You can reach him at depoorter@uchastings.edu.
Multiple John Doe lawsuits are now the most common type of copyright litigation in nineteen federal districts. In these lawsuits, copyright holders sue multiple anonymous defendants identified only by an Internet Protocol address. The plaintiffs issue subpoenas to obtain from Internet service providers the names of subscribers that are suspected of sharing unauthorized copies of copyrighted material of file-sharing networks. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit deal...
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