Huntington Beach, CA, Monday, December 6, 2004. Leslie A. Kelly announced today that Photographers Bruce Roberts, Morehead, NC, Mark Riddick, Sterling, Virginia, and Bill Kaufhold, Jackson, New Jersey, have retained the services of Raymond Rundelli, Jennifer B. Wick and Ryan W. Falk, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, Cleveland, Ohio and Glenn S. Gitomer and Jean Price Hanna of McCausland, Keen & Buckman, Radnor, Pennsylvania to represent them in a lawsuit against We Love Country, Inc., dba Mill Street Design, Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, and company officials Brian Yaffe and Wendy E. Lofgren. Gitomer and Hanna filed the lawsuit on behalf of Roberts, Riddick and Kaufhold in the US District Court, Eastern Division, Pennsylania to seek INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND DAMAGES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND PROVISIONS OF THE DIGITIAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT.
The claims asserted by the Plaintiffs relate in part to Defendants'
unauthorized use of photographs of lighthouses authored by Bruce Roberts, William Kaufhold, or Mark Riddick in connection with the creation, promotion and sale of certain tapestry products. These photographs were first published in books co-authored by Plaintiff Bruce Roberts which, in order of publication, include: (a) the first edition of Northern Lighthouses: New Brunswick to the Jersey shore; (b) Western Lighthouses; (c) Great Lakes Lighthouses; (d) the second edition of Southern Lighthouses: Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico; (e) the first edition of Western Great Lakes Lighthouses; (f) the first edition of New England Lighthouses; (g) the first edition of Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses; (h) Pacific Northwest Lighthouses; (i) the first edition of Southeastern Lighthouses: Outer Banks to Cape Florida; (j) the second edition of Western Great Lakes Lighthouses; (k) and the second edition of American Lighthouses.
The filing, 2:2004-cv-05631-RBS, Roberts, Riddick and Kaufhold v We Love Country, Inc.
dba Mill Street Design, Bridgeport, PA, Brian Yaffe and Wendy E. Lofgren, has been assigned to the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick.
It is anticipated that hearings will be held within 60 days in this matter.