Adlife Marketing & Communications Company, Inc. v. Popsugar Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
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8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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SAN JOSE DIVISION
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12 ADLIFE MARKETING & Case No. 19-CV-00297-LHK
COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, INC.,
13 ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S Plaintiff,
MOTION TO DISMISS WITH
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PREJUDICE
v. 15 Re: Dkt. No. 45
POPSUGAR, INC.,
16 Defendant. 17 18 Before the Court is Plaintiff Adlife Marketing & Communications Company, Inc.’s 19 (“Plaintiff”) motion to dismiss with prejudice Plaintiff’s own complaint alleging copyright 20 infringement against Defendant Popsugar, Inc. (“Defendant”). ECF No. 45-1 (“Mot.”); see also 21 ECF No. 1 (“Compl.”). For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s motion to 22 dismiss the complaint with prejudice. 23 I. INTRODUCTION 24 On November 25, 2018, Plaintiff filed a complaint in the United States District Court for 25 the Southern District of New York and alleged that Defendant infringed Plaintiff’s copyright to a 26 “photograph of fish tacos.” Compl. ¶ 1. Plaintiff allegedly acquired this photograph in a “large 27 portfolio” of photographs from…