IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 DON RAMEY LOGAN, Case No. 22-cv-01847-CRB
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v.
DISMISS
META PLATFORMS, INC., Defendant.
I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Don Logan initiated this suit as a putative class action against Defendant Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), asserting various copyright-related claims revolving around Facebook’s embedding tool. Logan’s First Amended Complaint (“FAC”) (dkt. 18) sets forth three sets of factual allegations. First, Logan alleges that Facebook’s embedding tool enables third parties to infringe his copyrighted photos uploaded onto his Facebook account by embedding them to third-party websites. Logan argues that Meta, by providing the tool, is secondarily liable for the infringement. Second, Logan alleges that Meta itself directly infringed his photos by embedding them from other websites onto Facebook and saving them on Facebook’s servers. Third, Logan brings claims under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §…