Case: Copyrights/Post-Trial Motions (8th Cir.)

DatabaseUSA.com LLC’s motion for judgment as a matter of law or a new trial, following judgment for Infogroup Inc. in its action for copyright infringement, was denied by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court found that a reasonable juror could have concluded that (1) Infogroup made an independent selection and arrangement of facts in its database at issue that entail a minimal degree of creativity; (2) Infogroup presented direct evidence that DatabaseUSA copied the original elements of Infogroup’s work; and (3) the spoliation instruction, with the other evidence, permitted an inference that DatabaseUSA’s 2014 database, which it destroyed, ...