California Court of Appeal
Digital Music v. Superior Court (Escape Media Group LLC), B242700
The trial court's order that petitioner comply with the subpoena issued by Escape Media, which requested that petitioner disclose the identity of a person identified only as "Visitor" who left a comment on one of petitioner's online articles about Escape being sued for copyright infringement over its Internet service called Grooveshark through which users may upload and retrieve digital music files, said he or she was an employee of Escape, and disclosed some of its practices, is vacated and remanded, where: 1) information identifying Visitor will not reasonably lead to the discovery of admissible evidence in Escape's underlying copyright infringement lawsuit; and 2) Visitor's privacy interests outweigh Escape's need for disclosure.
Appellate Information
- Decided 05/14/2014
- Published 05/14/2014
Judges
- CHANEY
Court
- California Court of Appeal