Background information

Larry Philpot is a freelance concert photographer who photographed musician Kid Rock, and made these photographs available under a Creative Commons License. Philpot alleged that Snopes Media Group, Inc. infringed his copyright by publishing, copying, and displaying the photographs on their website https://www.snopes.com/ without proper attribution to Philpot and his website. Philpot sought actual damages, interest, reasonable attorney’s fees, and statutory damages.

Case summary

On 09/03/2020, Philpot filed a notice of voluntary dismissal.