Sandhu

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FOCAL POINT FILMS, LLC,

Case No. 19-cv-02898-JCS Plaintiff, 8 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS

ARJOT SANDHU,

Re: Dkt. No. 31 Defendant.

12 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Focal Point Films, LLC (“Focal Point”) and its sole member Bryan Gibel (referred to collectively herein as “Gibel”) bring a copyright action seeking a declaratory judgment that Gibel is the sole author of a documentary film called Sign My Name to Freedom (the “Film”) that Defendant Arjot Sandhu also worked on. Sandhu, in turn, has asserted a counterclaim seeking a declaratory judgment that she is a co-author of the Film and owns an undivided interest in the copyright of the Film, as well as other related counterclaims. Presently before the Court is Gibel’s Motion to Dismiss Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff’s Counterclaims in Part (“Motion”). A hearing on the Motion was held on December 6, 2019. For the…