Apress Media, LLC v. Anna's Archive
Summary
Major publishers sue Anna's Archive for copyright infringement over unauthorized book distribution.
Summary generated by AI from public docket data. Verify against the original filing before relying on it.
Coverage vs reality meter
Coverage events: 2P · 0D · 1N (6 articles)
Press coverage leans plaintiff-favorable; no court ruling has been classified yet.
Coverage breakdown — the articles behind the meter
5 plaintiff-favorable · 0 defendant-favorable · 1 neutral articles
The meter counts distinct coverage events, not articles: 2 plaintiff · 0 defendant · 1 neutral events — a burst of same-stance coverage counts once, however many outlets ran it.
- Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scrapingEngadget · 2026-04-16
- A court has ordered Anna's Archive, a pirated library that illegally collected Spotify content, to pay $322.2 million (approximately 51 billion yen) in damages.GIGAZINE · 2026-04-16
- Anna's Archive to pay $322million after losing court case for scraping "nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings” from SpotifyNME · 2026-04-16
- Major Publishers Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunctiontorrentfreak.com · 2026-03-09
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Counsel of record
- Oppenheim & Zebrak LLPMatthew Jan Oppenheim
- Oppenheim & Zebrak, LLPJennifer L. Pariser
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- Docket no.
- 1:26-cv-01850
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- Jed S. Rakoff
- Filed
- 2026-03-06
- Last filing
- 2026-05-19
- Terminated
- 2026-05-19
Cause
17:501 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
Taylor & Francis Group LLC (plaintiff) Simon and Schuster, LLC (plaintiff) Penguin Random House LLC (plaintiff) Pearson Education, Inc., (plaintiff) McGraw Hill LLC (plaintiff) Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC (plaintiff) Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (plaintiff) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (plaintiff) HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. (plaintiff) Hachette Book Group, Inc. (plaintiff) Elsevier Inc. (plaintiff) Apress Media, LLC (plaintiff) Cengage Learning, Inc. (plaintiff) Does 1-10 (defendant) Anna's Archive (defendant)
Docket entries
- 2026-05-19
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- 2026-03-30
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- 2026-03-09
***NOTICE TO ATTORNEY TO RE-FILE DOCUMENT - EVENT TYPE ERROR. Notice to Attorney Matthew Jan Oppenheim to RE-FILE Document 2 Civil Cover Sheet. Use the event type Statement of Relatedness found under the event list Other Document. (sj)
- 2026-03-09
CASE REFERRED to Judge Jed S. Rakoff as possibly related to 1:26cv0002. (sj)
- 2026-03-09
CASE OPENING INITIAL ASSIGNMENT NOTICE: The above-entitled action is assigned to Judge Unassigned. (sj)
- 2026-03-09
Case Designated ECF. (sj)
- 2026-03-09
***NOTICE TO ATTORNEY REGARDING CIVIL. CASE OPENING STATISTICAL ERROR CORRECTION: Notice to attorney Matthew Jan Oppenheim. The following case opening statistical information was erroneously selected/entered: Fee Status code due (due). The following correction(s) have been made to your case entry: the Fee Status code has been modified to pd (paid). (sj)
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