‘No Reasonable Basis’ for Staying Motion for Attorneys’ Fees: RIAA

The Recording Industry Association of America doesn't support Yout’s request for a stay, pending appeal, in the association’s motion for attorneys’ fees to recover the money it spent defending Yout’s “objectively unreasonable lawsuit,” said RIAA’s reply brief Dec. 22 (docket 3:20-cv-01602) in U.S. District Court for Connecticut. RIAA won the dismissal of Yout’s complaint for a declaratory judgment that its YouTube-ripping software, which allows users to make copies of streaming video and audio files, doesn't violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see 2211230003). Yout waived any opposition to RIAA’s motion for attorneys’ fees by failing to file its response to the motion by the Dec. 1 deadline, said the RIAA. There is “no reasonable basis” for staying RIAA’s motion, it said. “The case law clearly provides that judicial economy favors deciding fee motions while they are fresh in the Court’s mind and to provide an opportunity for further efficiency by consolidating with the merits issues into a single appeal,” said the association. “Yout has failed to justify deviation from this routine practice.”