Judge: Defamation, Other Counterclaims Survive In Copyright Infringement Dispute

( October 24, 2024, 11:40 AM EDT) -- NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge in Tennessee on Oct. 23 denied a plaintiff media company’s motion to dismiss a defendant company’s state law counterclaims of defamation and other counts against the plaintiff company and its executive in a copyright dispute, holding that the plaintiff company failed to show that the state law counterclaims are preempted by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)....