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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:501 Copyright Infringement

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EX PARTE APPLICATION AND [] ORDER 

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Matthew Franklin Jaksa (CA State Bar No. 248072) 

HOLME ROBERTS & OWEN LLP

560 Mission Street, 25th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2994 

Telephone: (415) 268-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 268-1999 

Email: matt.jaksa@hro.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

CAPITOL RECORDS, INC.; UMG 

RECORDINGS, INC.; SONY BMG 

MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT; MOTOWN 

RECORD COMPANY, L.P.; ELEKTRA 

ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC.; BMG 

MUSIC; and WARNER BROS. RECORDS 

INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

CAPITOL RECORDS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation; UMG RECORDINGS, INC., a 

Delaware corporation; SONY BMG MUSIC 

ENTERTAINMENT, a Delaware general 

partnership; MOTOWN RECORD COMPANY, 

L.P., a California limited partnership; 

ELEKTRA ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC., 

a Delaware corporation; BMG MUSIC, a New 

York general partnership; and WARNER BROS. 

RECORDS INC., a Delaware corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

JOHN DOE, 

Defendant. 

CASE NO. 5:07-CV-04106-RMW 

The Honorable Ronald M. Whyte 

EX PARTE APPLICATION TO CONTINUE 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND EXTEND TIME TO SERVE 

DEFENDANT AND [] ORDER

*E-FILED - 12/6/07*

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Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court continue the case management conference 

currently set for December 7, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. to March 7, 2008. Plaintiffs further request, 

pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 4(m) and 6(b)(1), that Plaintiffs ’ time to 

serve the Summons and Complaint on Defendant John Doe (“Defendant”) be extended from 

December 7, 2007 to March 6, 2008. As further explained below, Defendant Doe’s true identity 

remains unknown to Plaintiffs, and there is therefore no known defendant with whom to confer or on 

whom Plaintiffs can serve the Summons and Complaint. 

In support of this application, Plaintiffs represent as follows: 

1. Plaintiffs filed their Complaint for Copyright Infringement against Defendant on 

August 9, 2007 alleging that Defendant used an online media distribution system to unlawfully 

download and/or distribute certain of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings. Plaintiffs did not 

have sufficient identifying information to name Defendant in the Complaint, but were able to 

identify Defendant by the Internet Protocol address assigned to Defendant by his or her Internet 

Service Provider – here, University of California, Santa Cruz (“UC Santa Cruz”). 

2. Accordingly, also on August 9, 2007, Plaintiffs filed their Ex Parte Application for 

Leave to Take Immediate Discovery, seeking the Court’s permission to serve a Rule 45 subpoena on 

UC Santa Cruz so that Plaintiffs could obtain information sufficient to determine Defendant’s true 

identity. 

3. On August 27, 2007, the Court issued its Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Ex Parte

Application for Leave to Take Immediate Discovery. Pursuant to the Court’s Order, Plaintiffs 

served a Rule 45 subpoena on UC Santa Cruz, and UC Santa Cruz responded to the subpoena on 

November 28, 2007. However, UC Santa Cruz’s response did not include information enabling 

Plaintiffs to identify Defendant. 

4. Plaintiffs are now in the process of determining whether UC Santa Cruz sufficiently 

responded to Plaintiffs’ subpoena (in which case Plaintiffs will dismiss this case) or if supplemental 

information might be available from UC Santa Cruz that would allow Plaintiffs to identify 

Defendant and proceed with this lawsuit. 

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5. However, because Defendant’s true identity is not yet known (and very likely will 

never be known unless and until Plaintiffs obtain identifying information from UC Santa Cruz), 

there is not yet a known defendant with whom to confer, and a case management conference is 

unnecessary at this time. For the same reason, Plaintiffs are currently unable to serve Defendant 

with the Summons and Complaint. 

6. Plaintiffs therefore respectfully request that the Court continue the case management 

conference currently set for December 7, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. to March 14, 2008. 

7. Because the original time period for Plaintiffs to serve the Summons and Complaint 

on Defendant will expire on December 7, 2007, Plaintiffs further request that the time to serve the 

Summons and Complaint on Defendant be extended to March 6, 2008. 

Dated: November 30, 2007 HOLME ROBERTS & OWEN LLP 

By: /s/ Matthew Franklin Jaksa______ 

MATTHEW FRANKLIN JAKSA 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

ORDER

 Good cause having been shown: 

IT IS ORDERED that the case management conference currently set for December 7, 2007, 

at 10:30 a.m. be continued to March 14, 2008. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 

4(m) and 6(b), Plaintiffs’ time to serve the summons and complaint on Defendant be extended to 

March 6, 2008. 

Dated: ___________________ By: _____________________________ 

Honorable Ronald M. Whyte 

United States District Judge 

12/6/07

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