Kifle
Kifle v. Youtube LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 ELIAS KIFLE, Case No. 21-cv-01752-CRB
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING AMENDED
v. MOTION FOR TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDER AND
YOUTUBE LLC, et al., PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Defendants.
Pro se Plaintiff Elias Kifle is suing Defendants YouTube LLC and Paypal, Inc. for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and breach of contract. See Second Amended Complaint (SAC) (dkt. 33). His claims arise from YouTube’s termination of Kifle’s YouTube channel and other users’ subsequent display of Kifle’s videos on YouTube without Kifle’s permission. Id. at 3–4. Kifle now seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction “to restrain Defendants from allowing the copying, reproducing, uploading, displaying, or distributing of [Kifle]’s copyrighted and protected marks on their websites.” Amend. Mot. for TRO (dkt. 31) at 1–2. He also asks the Court to “restore” his channel “and its automated…