Moonbug Entertainment Limited v. Babybus (Fujian) Network Technology Co., Ltd
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT Case No. 21-cv-06536-EMC LIMITED, et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER CLARIFYING SCOPE OF § 512(F) CLAIM v.
BABYBUS (FUJIAN) NETWORK
TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, et al.,
Defendants.
13 14 On July 7, 2023, the parties raised a dispute as to the scope of Plaintiffs’ § 512(f) claim. Before this trial began, the Plaintiffs had filed a Motion to File a Supplemental Complaint to add “a narrow and self-contained 512(f) claim to this case.” Docket No. 271 at 2. In its motion, Plaintiffs explained that on March 9, 2023, Plaintiffs discovered that Defendants were still displaying and performing Defendants’ concededly infringing “Yes Yes Playground” video on its Portuguese language channel on YouTube. Plaintiffs submitted a takedown notice to YouTube. Around this time, Defendants submitted counter-notifications about the hundreds of videos where it still disputed infringement, including a March 20, 2023 counter-notification to…