RIAA Given Dec. 22 Deadline to Press for Attorneys’ Fees in Yout Case

U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill for Connecticut, in an electronic order Monday (docket 3:20-cv-01602), granted a Nov. 21 consent motion giving defendant RIAA a deadline extension to Dec. 22 for a reply brief in support of its motion to recover attorneys’ fees in its legal fight against the YouTube-ripping software platform Yout. Underhill granted RIAA’s motion for dismissal of Yout’s complaint for a declaratory judgment that its software, which allows users to make copies of streaming video and audio files, doesn't violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see 2211230003). RIAA says an award of attorneys’ fees would be “appropriate and justified” because Yout’s claims were “objectively unreasonable, if not frivolous.”