'Copyright Troll' Richard Liebowitz Sanctioned by Court AGAIN

After filing 1,110 copyright infringement lawsuits in under two years, you'd think you might make some mistakes. And that the court might notice. Several times.

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[cpcupcake]

I'm surprised copyright trolling is not illegal as a type of fraud or extortion.

[kevenharvey]

Extortion under the threat of legal fees, clogging the legal system for personal profit, a parasite through and through. Only a psychopath would fall so low, I hope.

[toxigenic]

"Emily Ratajkowski's new DNKY ad is just her walking a dog in lingerie." What I want to know is why was the dog wearing lingerie? I love dangling participles.

[crimsonhalo]

I take it he never realized this could potentially become a fast track to disbarment?

[dynadd]

Let me see if i understand correctly :
The reconsideration memorandum's essence is that the defendant allegedly knew about Getty but didnt asked about it during the discovery period?

Like in South Park when Butters didnt tell anyone about his future self living with him because nobody asked?

[richardfarrer]

Given Liebowitz was dealing with a case a day it would be interesting to know how many hours he was claiming for each case.

[othertalk]

I'd like to declare before the court that the images in question are, in fact, quite lovely.

[Maddness]

The notice of motion for reconsideration’s arguments look to amount to ‘they didn’t ask’.

To use the courts term, that seems a lame argument.

[DanafoxyVixen]

Thankyou Leonard for using a green screen, its resolved the ability to read along with the text and still have you onscreen without your frame blocking the text too much

[Soggy-In-Seattle]

The video quality was excellent, and greenscreen use was perfect. Editing was not noticeable, which is how it should be.
Content was great as always. This channel just gets better & better.

[Vessekx]

Doesn’t the fact that they filed discovery documents involving Getty licensing of *other* images, while *not* filing the corresponding documents for the allegedly infringed images simply *underscore* the nature of the plaintiff’s failure to produce the documents during discovery? It would, in fact simply illustrate that, in the process of gathering documents from/about the specific topic, I ignored the duty to provide the documents related to the *actual* issue at hand.

If I’m alleging that you stole my car, and I produce evidence of ownership of dozens of other, similar cars, but *fail* to produce evidence of ownership for the allegedly stolen car, that isn’t a simple oversight. That is the intentional and willful failure to produce the *most* relevant support for my claim.

[JosephComstock]

How do attorneys that engage in this behavior maintain their standing in the relevant Bar Associations?

[benjones]

I love that you have to add that there were three emojis as part of the quote from the model.


Edit: I don't think I've seen a video on youtube or anywhere that mentions lace underwear as much as this. I'm amazed everyone was able to concentrate on the case!

[carlseibert]

So let's unpack this. Somebody allegedly steals ( I'm guessing) about $300worth of work from a small businessman and that (if we take the bond amount and multiply by two to account for both sides) requires the expenditure of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to be properly and competently litigated.

No small business person can afford such a risk. Best case, the alleged victim receives a few hundred dollars in damages on a $50, 000 investment. If the publisher "wins", a $50, 000 defense yields a PARTIAL reimbursement of costs. Years down the road.

So thieves steal with impunity. Publishers (honest ones) live in constant fear of being destroyed by a difference of opinion on fair use. And on top of all that, we have trolls. We couldn't build a more vile and corrupt system if we explicitly tried.

I've said many times that copyright infringement should be a criminal matter. Taxpayer-funded police should enforce the laws. Violators should go to jail for long enough to deter their behavior and there needs to be a big, very bright line around fair use so that publishers don't have to bet their very existence on day-to-day decisions. Others may propose differing solutions, but damn it, we need to do SOMETHING!

Until then, worrying about trolling is like cleaning a single bacterium from a diseased cesspool.

[vawlkus]

How long will it be before all of this trolls cases get auto-bounced? Or is that even a possibility?

[cpt_nordbart]

Nice that they throw the attorney under the bus and not the plaintiff.

[MrNicoJac]

Why hadn't the court asked the Bar to revoke his licence yet?
Seems to me that if all these judges get pissed off by his conduct, pressure on the Bar should build pretty rapidly, no?

[sheppycider]

At what point does the judge refer him to the ethics board?

[matthewbrasel]

As far as how the model got certain photos of herself, I would think they would have been supplied by DKNY itself right? You can go through footage bit by bit and get a "still" image. I would imagine that besides money the model also had a deal with DKNY that she could use any photos of herself on her social media or perhaps only specifically to Instagram and to promote the DKNY shoot (which it seems like she did). Considering that the cameramen for the filming and any photographers would all be working to get the best angle, lighting, etc, is it too much of a stretch to say that some of the images derived from footage and that some of the images captured by photographers would be identical?

[b.s.]

I think the script needed a few more revisions. About 10 minutes in I lost track of who the clients were and the relevance of the specific point in dispute.