Order Granting Defendants' Motion to Dismiss,
Epikhin et al. v. Game Insight N.A., et al., 5:14-cv-4383
(Judge Lucy Koh)
Cat videos are one of the most popular types of user-uploaded
Internet videos. It is unsurprising, then, that there is now
cutting-edge copyright case law about a cat-themed video game. In a
case about who owns the copyright to the game "Cat
Story," Judge Koh recently issued an order dismissing the case
because the plaintiff failed to deposit copies of the game at issue
itself with the Copyright Office. As her opinion shows, this is
something that plaintiffs need to get right.
The central issue of the case was who owned the copyright to the
mobile app video game Cat Story. Before Cat Story was developed,
Plaintiffs had started developing a similar game called
"PussyVille." Allegedly, Defendants offered to help
develop PussyVille for a share of the app's profits,
subsequently obtained some of the PussyVille source code, and then
used that code to
