This month saw the first Pacific Northwest BitTorrent copyright lawsuits filed in Oregon by Clear Skies Nevada, LLC, which owns the rights to the 2014 film Good Kill. This film concerns a military drone pilot (played by Ethan Hawke) who questions the ethics of dropping bombs in Afghanistan from his remote post in Nevada. Clear Skies Nevada was known for a large number of previous copyright infringement filings in Illinois, Michigan and Texas, with lesser numbers of cases in Colorado, Florida and Wisconsin, as reported by Antonelli Law. The new cases, filed in the U.S. District Court, District of Oregon, are the work of Salem, Oregon lawyers Carl D. Crowell and Crowell Law. Like countless prior copyright suits filed in this District Court (and many other courts), the lawsuits allege infringement of the films by anonymous “Doe” defendants through the use of BitTorrent file-sharing software. Two of the three Clear…
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