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Roland Chambers, Jr. v. Amazon - Com Inc., 4th Cir. (2015)
Roland Chambers, Jr. v. Amazon - Com Inc., 4th Cir. (2015)
No. 15-1767
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Columbia.
Mary G. Lewis, District Judge.
(3:14-cv-04890-MGL)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Roland Chambers, Jr., appeals the district courts order
adopting
the
recommendation
summarily
dismissing
this
of
action
the
magistrate
alleging
judge
violations
of
and
the
We affirm.
I
Defendant
CD
Baby,
an
Oregon-based
business
entity,
five
acting
as
an
online
consignor.
Reliable
Brokering,
Chambers
discovered
that
the
material
was
In
allegedly
Chambers for any of the CDs until 2014, when Chambers purchased
a CD from Amazon.com.
Additionally,
magistrate
pauperis
and
judge
granted
recommended
summary
leave
to
proceed
dismissal.
The
in
forma
magistrate
support
for
his
claim
that
any
defendant
overruled
recommendation,
Chambers
finding
objections
that
the
an
The district
and
complaint
made
adopted
and
the
attachments
dismissal,
authority
it
under
appears
28
that
U.S.C.
the
court
was
1915(e)(2)
exercising
(2012)
to
its
dismiss
claim.
The
truncated
treatment
given
the
claims
1915(e),
claims
without
namely,
requiring
requiring
dismissal
defendants
to
of
insubstantial
file
responsive
pleadings.
1996)
banc)
(en
(concluding
that
3
abbreviated
treatment
of
complaint
was
evidence
of
courts
intent
to
exercise
its
Jones v. Bock,
requires
the
reviewing
court
to
draw
on
its
judicial
679
novo
(2009).
We
review
de
1915(e)(2)
dismissal.
Slade v. Hampton Rds. Regl Jail, 407 F.3d 243, 248 (4th Cir.
2005).
III
To establish a claim for copyright infringement under the
Copyright Act . . . , a plaintiff must prove that [he] possesses
4
valid
[the]
copyright
work
that
and
are
that
the
original
defendant
and
copied
protectable.
elements
of
Copeland
v.
did
not
set
forth
Id.
sufficient
facts
to
state
Although he appeared
Reliable
Chambers asserted in
he
originally
supplied
CD
Baby
were
available
from
We find
that
in
Chambers
complaint
to
did
not
establish
set
forth
either
sufficient
that
he
facts
possessed
his
valid
MDY
the
measures
circumvention
that
are
of
copyright
either
owners
designed
to
technological
control
access
to
Id.
the
circumvention
of
the
technological
measure
either
Act.
Storage
Tech.
Corp.
v.
Custom
Hardware
Engineering & Consulting, Inc., 421 F.3d 1307, 1318 (Fed. Cir.
2005) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Chambers
did
not
state
any
facts
from
which
it
might
he
did
not
claim
to
have
put
into
place
Thus, dismissal
therefore
affirm.
We
dispense
with
oral
argument