Copyright Defendant’s Secret Phone Recording Stays Confidential

A recording of a phone call between a copyright suit defendant and the plaintiff’s copyright enforcement agent was properly designated as confidential under a discovery order, a federal magistrate judge ruled Mar. 5.

Geoarm Security’s interest in keeping the recorded conversation private outweighs Alarm Grid Inc.'s need to share the information with the enforcement agent, a non-party to the litigation, Magistrate Judge William Matthewman said.

Alarm Grid alleges that one of its copyrighted photographs was unlawfully displayed on Geoarm’s website. The litigants are competing alarm monitoring services companies that target consumers who install security systems on a do-it-yourself basis.

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