Lou Maxwell Taylor vs. Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

Outcome: settled with Defendants' indemnitor

Description: Defendant copied and placed on its website for sale mp3 files of Plaintiff's music without Plaintiff's permission. The primary fault was traced to a German GmBH called MTunes, which had provided the files to Defendant and sixteen other vendors throughout the world. Plaintiff settled with MTunes for a sum in lieu of statutory damages and dismissed his federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Defendant.