California Federal Judge Dismisses Copyright Claims But Grants Leave To Amend

Mealey's (January 14, 2016, 12:03 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Although finding that portions of a plaintiff’s hypertext markup language (HTML) code meet the requisite level of creativity to be copyrightable, a California federal judge on Jan. 12 nonetheless granted dismissal of an infringement complaint (Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC v. Netseer Inc., No. 14-3883, N.D. Calif.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3784)....