Hunley
Hunley v. Instagram, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 ALEXIS HUNLEY, et al., Case No. 21-cv-03778-CRB
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
v. MOTION TO DISMISS WITHOUT
LEAVE TO AMEND
INSTAGRAM, LLC, Defendant.
On May 19, 2021, Plaintiffs Alexis Hunley and Matthew Scott Brauer (collectively, Hunley) sued Defendant Instagram, LLC. See Compl. (dkt. 1) at 19-22. Hunley alleged that Instagram provided an “embedding” mechanism through which “third parties can copy the HTML [Hypertext Markup Language] code of an Instagram user’s post and paste it into the third party’s website, causing the photo or video posted to that Instagram user’s account to be simultaneously displayed on that third party website.” Id. ¶ 2. Hunley alleged that third parties committed copyright infringement and that Instagram was secondarily liable for that infringement. On September 17, this Court granted Instagram’s motion to dismiss. See Order Granting MTD (dkt. 27). The Court explained…