Elias

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

VICTOR ELIAS,

Case No. 20-cv-06031-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER GRANTING RENEWED MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT ALLURE SEO, et al., 13 Defendants.

15 Plaintiff Victor Elias is a professional photographer. He brings this action for copyright infringement arising from an allegedly unauthorized use of one of his photographs on a website promoting carpet and upholstery cleaning services. The original complaint named as defendant “Fremont Carpet Cleaners,” an “unincorporated entity,” with an address listed in the city of Fremont, California. Fremont Carpet Cleaners was alleged to be the owner of the website on which Elias’ photograph appeared, www.carpetcleaning-fremont.com. Elias subsequently filed a status report advising that he had discovered Fremont Carpet Cleaners was a “defunct company” and that Allure SEO might be “the entity solely responsible for the infringing use of Plaintiff’s photograph alleged in…