Instead, Lighthouse agreed that the restraining order should continue for the duration of the lawsuit. This disobedience constitutes contempt of the Court s order. The Court ordered Lighthouse to honor IRI s copyright by refraining from copying or distributing verbatim any portion of the Handbook. Actually copying or distributing is no more an infringement than inducing, causing or materially contributing to copying or distribution by another. Indeed, advertising goods known to be an infringement renders the advertisers equally liable for infringement.
Infringement includes either doing it directly or helping another to do it.
After issuance of the restraining order, Lighthouse has itself reproduced the entire Handbook contrary to the Court s order. Lighthouse admits it. In its responsive paper and in its statements to the press, Lighthouse asserts that the entire Handbook, not just the portions originally alleged in this matter, is available from other sources including Internet sources. Lighthouse can only know this by having made and viewed electronic copies of the entire Handbook from these other sources. This copying by Lighthouse is even more egregious because the copying constitutes all 160 pages of the Handbook, not the 20 or so pages in dispute.