Hopson, Benjamin v. Google, LLC

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN BENJAMIN HOPSON, II, d/b/a GELBOORU/GELCOM, and BLUETYPE, LLC, Plaintiffs, OPINION AND ORDER v. No. 21-cv-320-wmc GOOGLE, LLC and DOES 1-2 Defendants. Benjamin Hopson, II owns BlueType, LLC, and does business as website Gelbooru/Gelcom (“Gelbooru”). Collectively, these plaintiffs allege that Does 1 and 2 knowingly submitted false takedown notices against Hopson’s website in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,

17 U.S.C. §§ 512, 1201 et seq. (“DMCA”). Plaintiffs further allege that in responding to those…