Legal Opinion
Flava Works, Inc v. Marques Rondale
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 2012No. 11-3190PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants (“myVidster” for short) appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction in a suit by Flava Works for copyright infringement. The district judge based the injunction on his finding that myVidster is a contributory infringer (more precisely, that the trier of fact would probably find this to be the case in a trial) — in other words, roughly an infringer’s accomplice. See Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913, 930, 125 S.Ct. 2764, 162 L.Ed.2d 781 (2005); Kalem Co. v. Harper Brothers, 222 U.S. 55, 62-63, 32 S.Ct. 20, 56 L.Ed. 92…
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