REALNETWORKS, INC. v. DVD COPY CONTROL ASS'N

Nos. C 08-04548 MHP, C 08-04719 MHP.

641 F.Supp.2d 913 (2009)

REALNETWORKS, INC., a Washington Corporation; and Realnetworks Home Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiffs and Counter-defendants, v. DVD COPY CONTROL ASSOCIATION, Inc., a Delaware nonprofit corporation, Disney Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Paramount Pictures Corp., a Delaware corporation; Sony Pictures Enter., Inc., a Delaware corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., a Delaware corporation; NBC Universal, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Warner Bros. Enter. Inc., a Delaware corporation; and Viacom, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants and Counter-complainants. Universal City Studios Productions L.L.L.P., Universal City Studios L.L.L.P., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Sony Pictures Television Inc., Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. Enter. Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Realnetworks, Inc., a Washington Corporation; and Realnetworks Home Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

August 11, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Berta, Tracy Tosh Lane, Esq., Colleen Bal, James A. Diboise, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professional Corporation, San Francisco, CA, Alan E. Littmann, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, Chicago, IL, Donald E. Scott, Karma Micaela Giulianelli, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Denver, CO, Leo Patrick Cunningham, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA, for Plaintiffs and Counter-defendants/Defendants.

Maria Ellinikos, Reginald David Steer, Teresa Wen Chia Wang, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Jonathan Hugh Blavin, Attorney at Law, Rebecca G. Lynch, Rohit K. Singla, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Mark Frederick Lambert, Mark R. Weinstein, William Sloan Coats, III, White & Case LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Michael Craig Small, Stephen Roy Mick, Esq., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Bart Harper Williams, Glenn Douglas Pomerantz, Kelly Max Klaus, Laura Ashley Aull, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Eric James German, Mitchell Silberberg et al., Robert Henry Rotstein, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Daniel Ernest Robbins, Motion Picture Association of America Inc., Encino, CA, Gregory Paul Goeckner, Sherman Oaks, CA, for Defendants and Counter-complainants/Plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

MARILYN HALL PATEL, District Judge.

BACKGROUND

On September 30, 2008, RealNetworks, Inc. and RealNetworks Home Entertainment, Inc. (together, "Real") brought action in this court against the DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. ("DVD CCA") and several major motion picture studios, seeking a declaratory judgment that Real has neither breached its license agreement with DVD CCA nor violated the Digital Millennium...

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