DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. v. VIDANGEL, INC.

No. 16-56843.

869 F.3d 848 (2017)

DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.; Lucas-Film Ltd. LLC; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc., Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, v. VIDANGEL, INC., Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 24, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter K. Stris (argued), Elizabeth Rogers Brannen , Dana Berkowitz , and Victor O'Connell , Stris & Maher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Brendan S. Maher , Daniel L. Geyser , and Douglas D. Geyser , Stris & Maher LLP, Dallas, Texas; Ryan Geoffrey Baker , Jaime Wayne Marquart , and Scott M. Malzahn , Baker Marquart LLP, Los Angeles, California; David W. Quinto , VidAngel Inc., Beverly Hills, California; Shaun P. Martin , University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California; for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant.

Donald B. Verrilli Jr. (argued), Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, D.C.; Glenn D. Pomerantz , Kelly M. Klaus , Rosa Leda Ehler , and Allyson R. Bennettt , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees.

William A. Delgado , Willenken Wilson Loh & Delgado LLP, Los Angeles, California; Susanna Frederick Fischer , Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae U.S. Representatives John Hostettler and Spencer Bachus.

Mitchell L. Stoltz and Kit Walsh , San Francisco, California, as and for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.

James M. Burger , Thompson Coburn LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mark Sableman , Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, Missouri; for Amicus Curiae ClearPlay, Inc.

Dean E. Short , Short Legal Group, Newport Coast, California; Bruce H. Turnbull , Turnbull Law Firm PLLC, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae DVD Copy Control Association Inc., and Advanced Access Content System License Administrator LLC.

Eleanor M. Lackman and Lindsay W. Bowen , Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, New York, New York; Keith Kupferschmid and Terry Hart , The Copyright Alliance, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae The Copyright Alliance.

Before: Carlos T. Bea and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and Leslie E. Kobayashi, District Judge.


OPINION

VidAngel, Inc. operates an online streaming service that removes objectionable content from movies and television shows. VidAngel purchases physical discs containing copyrighted movies and television shows, decrypts the discs to "rip" a digital copy to a computer, and then streams to its customers a filtered...

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