ARISTA RECORDS LLC v. LIME GROUP LLC

No. 06 CV 5936 (KMW).

784 F.Supp.2d 398 (2011)

ARISTA RECORDS LLC; Atlantic Recording Corporation; BMG Music; Capitol Records, Inc.; Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.; Interscope Records; Laface Records LLC; Motown Record Company, L.P.; Priority Records LLC; Sony BMG Music Entertainment; UMG Recordings, Inc.; Virgin Records America, Inc.; and Warner Bros. Records Inc., Plaintiffs, v. LIME GROUP LLC; Lime Wire LLC; Mark Gorton; Greg Bildson; and M.J.G. Lime Wire Family Limited Partnership, Defendants.

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

May 2, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlana S. Cohen, Benjamin Sahl, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., Jennifer L. Pariser, Sony Corporation of America, Robert William Clarida, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., New York, NY, Blanca Fromm Young, Jonathan H. Blavin, Susan Traub Boyd, Munger Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Glenn D. Pomerantz, Hailyn J. Chen, Kelly M. Klaus, Kevin Goldman, Laura Ashley Aull, Melinda Eades Lemoine, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, Karyn Annise Temple, Kenneth Lewinn Doroshow, Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Joseph Thompson Baio, Roger David Netzer, James C. Dugan, John Robert Oller, Mary Jane Eaton, Tariq Mundiya, Thomas John Meloro, Jr., Todd G. Cosenza, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Chul Pak, Lucy Yen, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, New York, NY, Colleen Bal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants.


AMENDED OPINION & ORDER

KIMBA M. WOOD, District Judge.

I. Introduction*

Plaintiffs are thirteen major record companies that collectively produce, manufacture, distribute, sell, and license "the vast majority of copyrighted sound recordings sold in the United States." (First Am. Compl. ¶ 1.) Plaintiffs raise various federal...

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