July 23, 2021
An adult film producer has settled claims that it secretly used a Martha's Vineyard rental property to shoot nearly a dozen full-length flicks whose frames captured the homeowner's copyrighted artworks, averting what would have been a salacious jury trial.
July 21, 2021
Jurors tasked with deciding claims in a copyright suit involving adult films shot at a Martha's Vineyard rental home will not be asked whether they watch pornography or have been involved in pornographic productions, a federal judge said Wednesday.
July 02, 2021
As the second half of the year brings more of a sense of normalcy to Massachusetts, the courts are expecting to be bustling with in-person proceedings and no masks required. Here are five cases to watch over the second half of the year.
June 22, 2021
A Boston federal judge on Tuesday worried about offending jurors by forcing them to watch adult movies at the center of a copyright suit filed by a woman whose artwork-packed Martha's Vineyard rental home was secretly used for porn film shoots.
April 15, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday rejected three late-filed, too-long memos filed by an artist who claims a Canadian porn producer violated her copyrights while secretly filming at her Martha's Vineyard home and warned the woman against using the type of "insulting or pejorative" language found in her requests to compel discovery and issue sanctions.
November 10, 2020
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday ordered a porn producer to hand over documents showing how much profit it made off nearly a dozen movies shot at a Martha's Vineyard home that infringed the copyrights of the owner's belongings.
August 06, 2020
An adult film producer and her distribution company violated a Massachusetts artist's copyrights when the feature-length movies they shot at the artist's Martha's Vineyard home captured many of her works adorning the seaside abode, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
May 11, 2020
A Martha's Vineyard artist surprised to find her rented-out island home was used for a series of adult films has 45 days to catalog how long each of her works appeared in the movies if she wants to press copyright claims against the pornography company, a federal judge ruled Monday.
February 18, 2020
The judge's chambers and jury box will not be transformed into a theater for adult films to sort out a mess of copyright claims regarding pornographic movies shot at an artist's Martha's Vineyard home, a Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday.
October 24, 2019
An artist suing over pornographic videos filmed without permission at her rental home lost a bid Thursday to stop the videos from spreading after she failed to convince a Massachusetts federal judge that she would be harmed without an injunction.