7 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
10 CATHY O’BRIEN and LAURA ADNEY, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly 11 situated, TENTATIVE RULING RE: MOTION FOR FINAL APPROVAL OF CLASS 12 Plaintiffs, ACTION SETTLEMENT 13 vs.
14 POPSUGAR INC. and POPSUGAR MEDIA
INC.,
20 I. INTRODUCTION
21 This is a putative class action. Plaintiffs Cathy O’Brien and Laura Adney (collectively, 22 “Plaintiffs”) are social media influencers. (Amended Class Action Complaint (“Complaint”), 23 ¶¶ 4-5.) Thousands of influencers across the country recently learned that defendant PopSugar, a 24 pop culture website focusing on celebrity news, entertainment, fashion, which has its own 25 shopping platform, impersonated and misappropriated the influencers’ internet identities without 26 their consent from early or mid-2017 through early or mid-2018. (Complaint, ¶ 2.) PopSugar 27 scraped influencers’ content, photos, brand, likenesses, and logos and used them to create 28 profiles for each influencer on the PopSugar web
Hearing Date
February 14, 2020
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7 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
10 CATHY O’BRIEN and LAURA ADNEY, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly 11 situated, TENTATIVE RULING RE: MOTION FOR FINAL APPROVAL OF CLASS 12 Plaintiffs, ACTION SETTLEMENT 13 vs.
14 POPSUGAR INC. and POPSUGAR MEDIA
INC.,
20 I. INTRODUCTION
21 This is a putative class action. Plaintiffs Cathy O’Brien and Laura Adney (collectively, 22 “Plaintiffs”) are social media influencers. (Amended Class Action Complaint (“Complaint”), 23 ¶¶ 4-5.) Thousands of influencers across the country recently learned that defendant PopSugar, a 24 pop culture website focusing on celebrity news, entertainment, fashion, which has its own 25 shopping platform, impersonated and misappropriated the influencers’ internet identities without 26 their consent from early or mid-2017 through early or mid-2018. (Complaint, ¶ 2.) PopSugar 27 scraped influencers’ content, photos, brand, likenesses, and logos and used them to create 28 profiles for each influencer on the PopSugar web