By RaulThe following was meant to be an update to the Saturday’s post “ Malibu Media’s massive fraud “, but given the update’s size, I thought it would be more reasonable to make a separate post, especially given that the subject is really “a bomb.”

On November 12, 2012 defense counsel, Jeffrey Thennisch, delivered to the doorstep of troll Paul Nicoletti a thermonuclear device cleverly disguised as a motion to dismiss Malibu Media’s complaint (embedded below) coupled with simultaneous applications to the Copyright Office to cancel the copyright registrations of Malibu Media to the 15 registrations at issue in this lawsuit. The motion itself is highly legalistic and technical but it essentially boils down to the fact that Malibu Media has absolutely no legal right to sue for copyright infringement in this lawsuit as its copyright registrations are defective/fraudulent or in Thennisch’s summation:

…in response to the standing issue raised by the Doe Defendants, the named Plaintiff, realizing the “defect” in the specific Copyright Registrations asserted in this action on June 14, 2012, filed Supplemental Registration Forms CA for “the Works” on September 13, 2012 (see Exhibit C) all based upon a subsequent assignment which now alleges that “the Works” were, in fact, created by a current non-party individual named Brigham Field and transferred through an assignment of copyright to Malibu Media, LLC after the company was formed. Essentially, the named Plaintiff’s response to the standing issue raised by the Doe Defendants was to create and file an “after-the-fact” assignment document before the U.S. Copyright Office in the hopes of recreating standing. However, standing must exist when this action was commenced. Here, the September 13, 2012 document and assignment (see Exhibit 2:12-cv-12586-PJD-MJH Doc # 41 Filed 11/12/12 Pg 7 of 23 Pg ID 499 2D) from Brigham Field to Malibu Media LLC assigns the rights, title and interest in “the works” but does not specifically include any right(s) to sue for past infringements. This is now fatal.

Thennisch further argues that even if this lawsuit is not dismissed it should be put on hold until the Copyright Office can evaluate the validity of Malibu Media’s copyright registrations while invoking the notorious Righthaven litigation:

Perhaps more simply stated, the named Plaintiff, Malibu Media, LLC, filed this case on June 14, 2012 bringing multiple copyright infringement counts against at least thirteen (13) different parties without ever disclosing the fact that the non-party individual, Brigham Field, who we are now told is/was the “real” owner of the asserted rights — “may” have simply assigned such rights to Malibu Media, LLC. This is what the Plaintiff’s own September 13, 2012 documents at Exhibit D clearly state. However, Exhibit D does not include any attempt by Mr. Field to assign or transfer the right to bring such copyright infringement actions from himself, the individual, to Malibu Media, LLC or any other entity. In short, the named Plaintiff does not function as the legal or beneficial owner of any of the asserted rights and simply lacks the legal ability to bring the present claims which Malibu Media, LLC — not Brigham Field — filed before this Court on June 14, 2012. Most notably, “the right to sue for past infringement can be transferred to another party so long as it is expressly included in the assignment along with an exclusive right. Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn, 792 F.Supp.2d 1138 (D.Nev.2011) citing Silvers, 402 F.3d at 889-90. Nothing the Plaintiff has presented includes such a right.

Turning to the requests to cancel Malibu Media’s copyright registrations, there are a lot of fun quotes but this is my favorite is point 1, in which Thennisch points out that the registrations are a “canard” as it is a “factual, legal and metaphysical impossibility” for Malibu Media to be an “employer for hire”. Likewise, Thennisch points out that:

…Malibu Media has filed multiple copyright infringement proceedings throughout the United States against viewers of this “adult” content, as John Doe defendants, to extract settlements based upon issued copyright registrations which defy cognitive comprehension of the Julian calendar. In short, and with great respect, the Library of Congress is being used and pandered as a tool to effectuate the business plan of a pornogragher… the U.S. Constitution deserves better than this.

Once Nicoletti clambers out of his bomb shelter we will see how he responds to this unprecedented onslaught.