Petitioners iFixit, Public Resource and Make Community “seek to dramatically rewrite federal law and agency rules by destroying the copyright” to the standards development organizations’ standards, said 17 SDOs in an amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-1311) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit in support of the FCC.

Marriott is using “hundreds” of videos containing unlicensed music from Sony-owned labels, according to Sony's copyright infringement suit. It was filed Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00598) in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington.

Life Corp., a defendant in the League of Women Voters’ lawsuit to hold Life and other allegedly bad actors liable for robocalls placed to Democratic voters in the runup to the New Hampshire primary (see 2403150034), opposes the league’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block the defendants from repeating their crimes (see 2404290016), said Life’s objection Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord.

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Hip-hop group Run-DMC and its brand infringed the rights of photographer Ferrin Green, also known as Shoebio, and his creative agency, Know Your Dope (KYD), when it exploited eight photographs Shoebio created during an Aug. 11, 2023, performance at Yankee Stadium in New York, alleged a copyright infringement lawsuit (docket 1:24-cv-03900) Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

Thomas Gebka seeks an order compelling State Farm to produce in class discovery, without redactions, all records and notes for all calls that State Farm or any State Farm agency made from Oct. 10, 2018, to the present, said the plaintiff’s motion to compel Monday (docket 1:22-cv-05546) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

The First Amendment “protects a person’s right to view, approach, listen to, and record law enforcement, provided that there is no interference with police activity,” said plaintiff-appellant Donald Nicodemus’ reply brief Monday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to Indiana’s “buffer law.”

Plaintiffs Ryan Unruh and Christopher Isbell oppose the consolidation of all related actions to the Northern District of Texas and support centralization in the Northern District of Georgia in In Re: AT&T Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, said their supplemental response (docket 3114) to their interested party response in support of transfer and centralization Monday before the U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

Snap’s “reckless disregard for the safety of minor users” allows sexual predators to use its social media platform to target and exploit minors, alleged a negligence complaint Friday (docket 3:24-cv-03068) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Columbia.