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DMCA Subpoena Sought to Force Twitter to ID Alleged Infringer

Santa Monica attorney Cecilia Chung petitioned the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco Monday for a Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoena ordering Twitter to produce documents that would identify the user who posted a copyrighted photo of…

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her client, Angelina Vertucci, at the handle @KILLTOPARTY. Chung submitted two takedown notifications to Twitter in early October, but to no avail, said her declaration in support of the subpoena (docket 3:22-mc-80280): “The purpose of this DMCA subpoena is to obtain information regarding the identify of the infringer and such information will only be used for the purpose of protecting Vertucci’s rights under the DMCA.” Twitter didn’t comment Tuesday.