Rosenberg v. Spicy Bear Media [1]

Rosenberg, a professional photographer, sued the operator of a Charlottesville, VA community blog [3] (now defunct) for copyright infringement, claiming it failed to remove images of his photograph that were posted [4] (twice [5]) to its site by unknown third parties.  The complaint [6] also included a claims for removal or alteration of copyright management information [7], because the images on cvillain.com were stripped of identifying material attached to the original picture (presumably the copyright symbol, name, and year that appear when mousing over the original photo [8]).

On July 6, 2009, the parties agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice [9] because they had reached a settlement in the amount of $750.