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Joshua Moon, et al. v. Russell G. Greer

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 21-4128 · judgment October 16, 2023


Certiorari denied · May 13, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether receipt of a takedown notice alone is sufficient to impute actual knowledge of copyright infringement to its recipient under the contributory infringement framework set forth in Metro-GoldwynMayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913 (2005).

  2. Whether a recipient of a takedown notice who publishes the notice with limited editorial comment thereon materially contributes to any prior or ongoing direct copyright infringement.

  3. Whether the posting of a link to copyrighted material saved at a third-party storage provider is the same as posting the infringing material itself.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Matthew Daniel Hardin
Hardin Law Office

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 13 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 17 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2024.
  3. Feb 29 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 3, 2024)