9th Circuit Vacates Inconvenient Forum Finding In Copyright Case

Mealey's (May 1, 2018, 12:27 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Citing a lack of evidence that various copyright infringement defendants were valid assignees of rights under a content partner revenue-sharing agreement (CPRA), the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 27 vacated and remanded an Arizona federal judge’s enforcement of the CPRA’s forum-selection clause and subsequent dismissal of the case on forum non conveniens grounds (AMA Multimedia LLC v. Sagan Ltd., et al., No. 17-15178, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 10797)....