CHAN v. ELLIS

No. S14A1652.

770 S.E.2d 851 (2015)

296 Ga. 838

CHAN v. ELLIS.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 27, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Mckenney , Mckenney & Froelich, Marietta, Oscar Michelen, Cuomo Llc, Mineola, for appellant.

Sidney Leighton Moore, III , James Darren Summerville , Summerville Moore, PC, Atlanta, Eugene Volokh , UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, for amicus appellant.

Elizabeth Wagner McBride , Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford, P.C., Columbus, for appellee.

Timothy B. McCormack , McCormack Intellectual Property Business Law P.S., Seattle, for amicus appellee.


Matthew Chan has a website on which he and others publish commentary critical of copyright enforcement practices that they consider predatory. Linda Ellis is a poet, and her efforts to enforce the copyright in her poetry have drawn the ire of Chan and his fellow commentators. On his website, they have published nearly 2,000 posts...

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