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DVD COPY CONTROL ASSN., INC. v. KALEIDESCAPE, INC.

No. H031631.

176 Cal.App.4th 697 (2009)

DVD COPY CONTROL ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. KALEIDESCAPE, INC., Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

August 12, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Edward Peter Lazarus, Michael C. Small, L. Rachel Helyar; White & Case, William S. Coats, Heidi L. Keefe, Mark R. Weinstein and Mark F. Lambert for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp and Wade Brandon Gentz for The Motion Picture Association of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Law Offices of Richard R. Wiebe, Richard R. Wiebe; Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, Keith L. Slenkovich, Tomomi Harkey; The Moore Law Group, Thomas E. Moore III and Nicole V. Economou for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

PREMO, J. —

The Content Scramble System (CSS) is the standard technology used to prevent unauthorized copying of movies and other copyrighted content stored on DVD's. Defendant Kaleidescape, Inc. (Kaleidescape), licensed CSS from plaintiff DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. (DVDCCA), in order to develop a home entertainment system for viewing movies distributed on DVD.1 The system Kaleidescape developed...

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