Case: Copyrights & Trade Secrets/Summary Judgment (N.D. Cal.)

A federal district court in California granted in part and denied in part the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment on Beijing Meishe Network Technology Co.'s copyright and trade secret misappropriation action against TikTok Inc. and related entities. The court granted Meishe Network summary judgment on the question of its ownership of the copyrights and trade secrets at issue, and determined that the publication of the software’s object code constitutes publication of a copyrighted source code. And the court granted summary judgment in favor of TikTok on the issue of ByteDance Ltd.’s non-liability.