HUNLEY v. INSTAGRAM, LLC

No. 22-15293.

73 F.4th 1060 (2023)

Alexis HUNLEY; Matthew Scott Brauer, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. INSTAGRAM, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 17, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon B. Cera (argued) and Pamela A. Markert , Cera LLP, San Francisco, California; Todd Friedman and Adrian R. Bacon , Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman P.C., Woodland Hills, California; James H. Bartolomei III , Duncan Firm P.A., Little Rock, Arkansas; Bryan D. Hoben , Hoben Law, Peekskill, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joseph C. Gratz (argued), Ragesh K. Tangri , and Annie A. Lee , Morrison and Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California; Allyson R. Bennett , Morrison and Foerster LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Stephen M. Doniger , Doniger/Burroughs PC, Venice, California; Michael P. Manapol , Beverly Hills, California; Mickey H. Osterreicher and Alicia Wagner Calzada , National Press Photographers Association, Athens, Georgia; for Amici Curiae American Photographic Artists, National Press Photographers Association, The Graphic Artists Guild, and Five Other Photography and Media Licensing Organizations.

Rebecca Tushnet , Lex Lumina PLLC, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae Google LLC, Pinterest Inc., Twitter Inc., and the Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

Amy Mason Saharia and D. Shayon Ghosh , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Internet Society.

Mitchell L. Stoltz and Cara Gagliano , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California; Alexandra Sternburg , Computer & Communications Industry Association, Washington, D.C.; Rachel B. Leswing , Authors Alliance, Berkeley, California; for Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computer & Communications Industry Association, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Association of College & Research Libraries, Authors Alliance, and the Organization for Transformative Works.

Before: Jay S. Bybee and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges, and Richard D. Bennett, District Judge.


OPINION

This copyright dispute tests the limits of our holding in Perfect 10 v. Amazon, 508 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir. 2007) in light of the Supreme Court's subsequent decision in American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, 573 U.S. 431, 134 S.Ct. 2498<...

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