No Secondary Liability For Founder Of Allegedly Infringing Company

An Arizona district court found that BioD failed to make its copyright infringement case against the founder of Amino Technology, a former BioD employee, after his new company had set up a similar website. In its ruling, the court found that BioD admitted that the allegedly infringed material was widely available online and failed to provide evidence that the former employee was personally responsible for it. Just being co-founder of the new company, the court determined, was not enough to bring secondary liability. Why the only possibility of liability in this case would be a lawsuit targeting the company.