October 05, 2017
A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered a man who live-streamed his son's birth on Facebook to repay $120,000 in legal bills to several media outlets he sued for using it, saying he likely made enough money from settlements in other suits to pay the fine.
July 13, 2017
Media companies including ABC and NBC requested $121,000 in attorneys' fees Wednesday after a New York federal judge found they deserved a fee award for having to defend against frivolous copyright lawsuits over their use of a man's publicly available Facebook video of his son's birth.
June 21, 2017
A man who live-streamed his son's birth on Facebook has been ordered to pay the attorneys' fees of ABC, NBC and several other media outlets he unsuccessfully sued for using it — lawsuits that a federal judge says "no reasonable lawyer with any familiarity with the law of copyright" should have filed.