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VIACOM INTERN. INC. v. YOUTUBE, INC.

No. 07 civ. 2103.

540 F.Supp.2d 461 (2008)

VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC., Comedy Partners, Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., and Black Entertainment Television LLC, Plaintiffs, v. YOUTUBE, INC., Youtube, LLC, and Google Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 7, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC (Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., William M. Hohengarten, Amy L. Tenney, Scott B. Wilkens, Luke C. Platzer, Sharmila Sohoni, Susan J. Kohlmann, Peter H. Hanna, Mattehw W. Alsdorf, of counsel), shearman & Sterling, New York, NY (Stuart J. Baskin, Stephen Fishbein, John Gueli, Kirsten Nelson Cunha, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Mayer Brown LLP, New York, NY (Richard Ben-Veniste, Andrew H. Schapiro, A. John P. Mancini, Matthew D. Ingber, Brian M. Willen, of counsel), Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC, New York, NY (David H. Kramer, Michael H. Rubin, Bart E. Volkmer, of counsel) for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

LOUIS L. STANTON, District Judge.

In this action brought under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., plaintiffs move pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(a) for leave to amend the complaint to assert a claim for punitive damages.1 In its present form, the complaint seeks statutory damages under Section 504(c) of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), or in the alternative, actual damages...

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