LENZ v. UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP.

Nos. 13-16106, 13-16107.

801 F.3d 1126 (2015)

Stephanie LENZ, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP.; Universal Music Publishing Inc.; Universal Music Publishing Group Inc., Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly M. Klaus (argued) and Melinda LeMoine , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Corynne McSherry (argued), Cindy Cohn , Kurt Opsahl , Daniel K. Nazer , and Julie Samuels , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Ashok Ramani , Michael S. Kwun , and Theresa H. Nguyen , Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Steven Fabrizio and Scott Wilkens , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.

Jennifer Pariser , Of Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, D.C.; Cynthia Arato , Marc Isserles , and Jeremy Licht , Shapiro, Arato & Isserles LLP, New York, N.Y., for Amicus Curiae Recording Industry Association of America.

Joseph Gratz , Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae Google Inc., Twitter Inc., and Tumblr, Inc.

Marvin Ammori and Lavon Ammori , Ammori Group, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Automatic, Inc.

Julie Ahrens and Timothy Greene , Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, Stanford, CA, for Amici Curiae Organization for Transformative Works, Public Knowledge, and International Documentary Association.

Opinion by Judge TALLMAN; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge MILAN D. SMITH, JR.


OPINION

Stephanie Lenz filed suit under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) — part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") — against Universal Music Corp., Universal Music Publishing, Inc., and Universal Music Publishing Group (collectively "Universal...

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