9th Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Fight Over Bootleg Recordings

9th Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Fight Over Bootleg Recordings

By PPLAdmin / March 1, 2022

On January 4, 2022, the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court’s decision to certify two classes of performers and musicians who sued online concert archive Wolfgang’s Vault for alleged copyright infringement, finding that “individual issues predominate over the ones affecting the proposed classes.” In an unpublished opinion, a three-judge panel said that musician Greg Kihn,…

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