{"id":7135,"date":"2025-07-29T23:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lawsuit-over-youtube-videos-of-russian-boy-band-dismissed-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:55:25","slug":"lawsuit-over-youtube-videos-of-russian-boy-band-dismissed-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lawsuit-over-youtube-videos-of-russian-boy-band-dismissed-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Over YouTube Videos of Russian Boy Band Dismissed in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA<\/span> U.S. appeals court says French digital music company Believe cannot be sued in Florida for posting the songs of a cult 1980s Russian boy band on YouTube.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Monday (July 28) opinion from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a lower court\u2019s dismissal last year of a lawsuit brought against Believe by Florida-based company World Media Alliance, which claims to own the catalog of the band Tender May (Laskovyi Mai<\/em> in Russian).<\/p>\n

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\n\tWorld Media Alliance alleges Believe infringed its copyrights by posting 44 videos containing Tender May\u2019s songs on YouTube without permission. Believe counters that World Media Alliance isn\u2019t actually the true owner of Tender May\u2019s catalog, because the boy band\u2019s producer sold the rights fraudulently and without the artists\u2019 permission.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe question of Tender May\u2019s catalog ownership is still being litigated in Russian courts. But regardless, a panel of three Eleventh Circuit judges says Monday that there\u2019s no jurisdictional basis for Believe to be sued in Florida.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWMA admits that Believe is a French corporation registered in France with no specific ties with Florida,\u201d writes the appellate court.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three appeals judges say the only connection that World Media Alliance has established between the Tender May YouTube videos and the Sunshine State is that Florida residents \u201cmight have access to the allegedly infringing work online.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut it does not state that Florida residents have actually accessed it,\u201d writes the panel. \u201cWithout any allegation that Believe engaged in potentially tortious conduct in the state of Florida, WMA has failed to allege specific personal jurisdiction under Florida\u2019s long-arm statute. The district court did not err in holding there was no specific personal jurisdiction over Believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for World Media Alliance and Believe did not immediately return requests for comment on the decision on Tuesday (July 29).<\/p>\n

\n\tTender May was formed by a group of teenagers at an orphanage in what was then the Soviet Union in 1988. The band found success with their song \u201cWhite Roses\u201d (\u201cBelye Rozi\u201d<\/em>), which according to court filings was a top 10 hit on Soviet charts. They split up in 1992.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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