Lex Lumina Files Suit on Behalf of Google Against DMCA Fraudsters

On November 13, 2023, Lex Lumina’s Rhett Millsaps and Mark Lemley filed a lawsuit on behalf of Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against bad actors in Vietnam who weaponized DMCA takedown procedures and Google’s systems by setting up dozens of Google accounts and using them to submit thousands of bogus copyright claims against their competitors. These fraudulent claims resulted in removal of over 100,000 businesses’ websites, costing millions of dollars and thousands of hours in lost employee time.

Read more in Techdirt, Ars Technica, Bloomberg Law, PC Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. The case is Google LLC v. Nguyen, et al., 23-cv-5824 (N.D. Cal.).