Legal Opinion
Curtis v. Illumination Arts, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided July 17, 2014No. Case No. C12-0991JLRPublishedCited by 188 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING DEFAULT JUDGMENT
JAMES L. ROBART, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
On June 8, 2012, Plaintiffs Chara Curtis, Cynthia Aldrich, and Alfred Currier filed a complaint seeking damages for breach of contract and copyright infringement. (Compl. (Dkt. # 1).) Plaintiffs are authors and illustrators of three children’s books. (Id. ¶ 11.) Plaintiffs allege in their complaint that Defendants Illumination Arts, Inc. (“IAI”), Illumination Arts Publishing, LLC (“IAP”), John Thompson, and Kim-mie Lynn Thompson breached the publishing contracts with respect to the three children’s books at issue…
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