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# Cases to Consider
1. Philpot Cases (Ongoing cases about enforcing Creative Commons BY based on Wikipedia Photos. Mostly about attribution and copyright management information)
1. Philpot v. Planck, LLC, Docket No. 1:17-cv-04513 (S.D.N.Y. Jun 15, 2017)
1. Philpot v. Entravision Communications Corporation, Docket No. 4:18-cv-07255 (N.D. Cal. Nov.
20, 2018)
1. Philpot v. Hubbard Radio Phoenix LLC, Docket No. 2:18-cv-03084 (D. Ariz. Oct 01, 2018)
1. Philpot v. New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, Docket No. 2:18-cv-09087 (E.D. La Oct
1, 2018)
1. Drauglis v. Kappa Map Grp., LLC, 128 F. Supp. 3d 46, 2015 ILRC 2503 (D.D.C. 2015)
1. Derivate work of a photo used in the cover of a atlas
1. Location of attribution requirements under CC BY-SA 2.0
1. Court talks about license is one of "first impression" in the circuit
1. Blizzard Entm’t, Inc. v. Lilith Games (Shanghai) Co., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74639 (N.D. Cal. May 16, 2017)
1. What is a work?
1. Artifex Software, Inc. v. Hancom, Inc., No. 16-cv-06982-JSC, 2017 BL 136537 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 25, 2017)
1. GPL enforceable as a contract even without a signature.
1. XimpleWare, Inc. v. Versata Software, Inc., Docket No. 5:13-cv-05161 (N.D. Cal. Nov 5, 2013), Document 85
1. Express patent license in GPL v2.0
1. Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google LLC, 886 F.3d 1179, 1203–04 (Fed. Cir. 2018)
1. Good faith/industrary custom has limited help in a copyright infrigment/fair use defense.
1. Industrary custom is treated differently in a contract case vs a copyright infringement case
1. Motion to File Amicus Curiae Brief, Great Minds v. FedEx Office & Print Services, Inc., Case No. 17-808 (2d Cir. July 5, 2017) , Document 40
1. 2nd circuit denied Creative Commons motion to file amicus brief to provide "unique, if not definitive, perspective on the operation of the license and its term"
1. License stewards view of hte license meaning may not be as meaningful as we expect when we get to court.
1. Wallace v. IBM Corp., 467 F.3d 1104 (7th Cir. 2006) (Judge Easterbrook) (pro se case, but about anti-trust)
1. Versata Software, Inc. v. Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (1:14-cv-00221)
1. GPL contract claim is not preempted by copyright
1. GPL might be enforceable by third party beneficiaries. (Need to get copies of the state court pleadings. How did the TX case turn out?)
1. If looks like Versata has a whole series of ligitation going on that might be related.
1. XimpleWare, Inc. v. Versata Software, Inc., Docket No. 5:13-cv-05161 (N.D. Cal. Nov 5, 2013), Document 85
1. Distribution under GPL