Shande

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 TAVERSHIMA SHANDE, Case No. 22-cv-05821-BLF

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

DISMISS DMCA CLAIM UNDER

v. RULE 12(b)(6); AND GRANTING

MOTION TO STRIKE STATE LAW

ZOOX, INC., CLAIMS UNDER CALIFORNIA’S

ANTI-SLAPP STATUTE

Defendant. [Re: ECF 71]

13 Plaintiff Tavershima Shande (“Shande”) filed suit against his former employer, Defendant Zoox, Inc. (“Zoox”), after a dispute arose regarding the parties’ respective rights to certain digital content. Shande was employed by Zoox for more than five years as a technical artist, creating digital street scenery of San Francisco for use in training Zoox’s self-driving vehicles. During the same period, Shande also created and copyrighted digital street scenery of San Francisco for use in videogames. Shande offered the digital videogame content for sale through an online marketplace operated by non-party Epic…