Background information

Larry Philpot is a freelance concert photographer who photographed musician Tom Petty, and made these photographs available under a Creative Commons License. Philpot alleged that Future Health, Inc. and Robert Kall, infringed his copyright by publishing, copying, and displaying the photographs on their website www.opednews.com without proper attribution to Philpot and his website. Philpot sought actual damages, interest, reasonable attorney’s fees, and statutory damages.

Case summary

On 12/11/2020, Philpot voluntarily dismissed the case as to all defendants.