Moonbug Entertainment Limited v. Babybus (Fujian) Network Technology Co., Ltd

District Court, N.D. California·Decided July 18, 2023·No. 3:21-cv-06536·Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 6 7 MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT Case No. 21-cv-06536-EMC LIMITED, et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE WITNESS DISCLOSURES 9 AND CROSS DISCLOSURES AND v. DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND 10 COUNTERDESIGNATIONS FOR JULY BABYBUS (FUJIAN) NETWORK 19, 2023 11 TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, et al., Docket Nos. 542, 543 12 Defendants.

13 14 15 The Court has reviewed Defendants’ disclosures, the Plaintiffs’ cross disclosures, as well 16 as the parties’ objections. The Court makes the following rulings. 17 19 20 Dated: July 18, 2023 21 22 ______________________________________ EDWARD M. CHEN 23 United States District Judge

24 25 26 27 PLAINTIFFS’ OBJECTIONS TO DEFENDANTS’ DISCLOSURES 1

2 The Court reviewed Plaintiffs’ objections and addresses them below.

3 Witnesses Trial Exhibit No. P’s Objections Court’s Rulings Christian Demonstratives Slides 51, 65-72: FRE 802, OVERRULED. 4 Tregillis provided FRCP 26(a)(2)(ii). These slides separately via cite data from RedToolBox.io, a For Slide 51, 65-72, the 5 sendfile link third-party platform aggregating Court has already YouTube view data. The indicated that it would 6 specific data from and queries permit underlying made to RedToolBox were not RedToolBox data in its 7 provided and Moonbug was not bellwether ruling. able to test or review this data. Docket No. at 14 (“The 8 Defendants cite only to the Court overrules this RedToolBox website as a whole objection. While D can 9 and not an particular webpage introduce this exhibit as within it. a basis for Seiter’s expert 10 opinion and not Slides 8: FRE 403. The pie substantive evidence in 11 charts purportedly reflecting itself, Paddack v. Dave Defendants’ revenue and profits Christensen, Inc., 745 12 for the conceded videos are F.2d 1254, 1261–62 (9th misleading and lacks citation. Cir. 1984), the summary 13 is admissible. . . . To the extent that D has not 14 Babybus’ response: provided P with RedToolBox data, it 15 Slides 51, 65-72 – The Court appears that the overruled Plaintiffs’ objection RedToolBox would be 16 to Mr. Tregillis’ use of data publicly available to P. from RedToolBox, a publicly RedToolBox is a 17 available source. Dkt. No. 431 publicly available at 14 (“To the extent that D has YouTube analytics tool. 18 not provided P with See Liberty Ins. RedToolBox data, it appears Underwriters, Inc. v. 19 that the RedToolBox would be Davies Lemmis publicly available to P. Raphaely L. Corp., 162 20 RedToolBox is a publicly F. Supp. 3d 1068, 1073 available YouTube analytics (C.D. Cal. 2016), aff’d, 21 tool.”). 708 F. App’x 374 (9th Cir. 2017) (rejecting 22 Slides 8, 65-68 – The data argument regarding regarding the percentage of admissibility of exhibit 23 views for the 6 conceded videos where the exhibit is derived from Schedule 5.1 of summarized publicly 24 the Rebuttal Report of Mr. available documents).”). Tregillis. The pie charts are a 25 proper visual representation of For Slide 8, Babybus that data. should add citations to 26 the charts.

27 Christian https://www.yout These are URLs, not exhibits, JUDGMENT Tregillis and should not be admitted into RESERVED. The waFq8 Song and If You're 1 https://www.yout The following URLs are no Happy and You Know It longer available on YouTube, Song is unclear. 2 ube.com/ and thus Plaintiffs are not able channel/UC8AJg to inspect their contents: 3 Z1VbK4 • https://www.youtube.co TAt1ToKj9Ddg/a m/ 4 bout watch?v=m09tKI4DKP https://www.yout k 5 ube.com/watch?v • https://www.youtube.co m 6 =a-FfgWKfPiw /watch?v=VZOgl0WqM https://www.yout MU 7 ube.com/ watch?v=m09tKI FRE 402/403 – The following 8 4DKPk URLs are CoComelon videos, https://www.yout but not asserted CoComelon 9 ube.com/ works, and are therefore watch?v=VZOgl0 irrelevant and confusing: 10 WqMMU • https://www.youtube.co m/ 11 watch?v=lmH5uqwaFq8 • https://www.youtube.co 12 m/ watch?v=a- FfgWKfPiw 13 802 - Additionally, the URL at 14 https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UC8AJgZ1VbK4 15 TAt1ToKj9Ddg/about contain statements made by Defendants 16 and third-party YouTube.

17 Christian 2153 to 2358 Not disclosed as materials OVERRULED. See Tregillis BabyBus considered as part Mr. Tregillis’ report at paragraph 173. 18 Invoice/Expense reports documents 19 802 – Statements by third parties and or unspecified 20 persons used for the truth of the matter asserted 21 Dkt. No. 452 – Defendants are 22 precluded from introducing evidence of purported 23 allocations of Defendants’ personnel costs and “Mr. 24 Tregillis is precluded from testifying at trial about 25 allocation of purported costs and expenses for the infringing 26 Super JoJo works in the United States.” 27 Slide 55 – The slide regarding 1 expenses does not address allocation of expenses as these 2 expenses are not allocated. These are invoiced costs, not 3 allocated overhead or personnel costs. The Court’s order did not 4 preclude testimony regarding all costs, merely allocated costs 5 (Dkt. No. 452), Likewise, the invoices (Ex. 2153 to 2358) are 6 invoiced and not allocated expenses. 7 Christian 473 Move and Not disclosed as materials SUSTAINED as to 8 Tregillis Exercise Song + considered. Exercise Song. More Nursery OVERRULED as to 9 Rhymes & Kids More Nursery Rhymes Songs - Super and Kids Songs. 10 JoJo Christian Expert Report of Dkt. 431 (Order re Bellwether SUSTAINED. 11 Tregillis Denise Denson Objections to Exhibits) (“Expert reports are inadmissible hearsay 12 and thus not independently admissible. See Hunt v. City of 13 Portland, 599 F. App’x 620, 621 (9th Cir. 2013)). 14 Christian 3287 Saperstein FRE 401/403; Mr. Saperstein is SUSTAINED. 15 Tregillis Report Ex. F not offering an opinion at trial.

16 Christian Rebuttal Report of As applied to all disclosures OVERRULED. Tregillis Christian Tregillis relating to the expert reports of 17 Christian Tregillis, including Exs. 3322-3372, 3514-3515: 18 Moonbug objects generally to 19 the admission of schedules that Mr. Tregillis or his team 20 prepared. The schedules/exhibits are 21 inadmissible hearsay. Mr. Tregillis is free to proffer an 22 opinion without the admission of his report schedules/exhibits. 23 See Dkt. 432 at 4-5. Moonbug generally objects to every 24 schedule which lacks citation to documents, including because 25 such schedules reflect information not relied upon by 26 Mr. Tregillis and/or not produced in discovery. 27 reports are inadmissible hearsay 1 and thus not independently admissible. See Hunt v. City of 2 Portland, 599 F. App’x 620, 621 (9th Cir. 2013)). 3 Christian 3346, 3347 – No citation, appears to cite JUDGMENT 4 Tregillis Schedule 7.6, evidence not produced in RESERVED, pending 7.6.1 to Rebuttal discovery. citation of evidence. 5 Report of Christian Tregillis 6 Christian 3348-3353 These schedules (Exs. 3348- SUSTAINED. 7 Tregillis Schedule 8.1- 3352), and any other document 8.3.1 to Rebuttal including purportedly allocated 8 Report of costs are in violation of Dkt. Christian Tregillis 452 (“The parties are precluded 9 from introducing any evidence of purported allocations of 10 Defendants’ personnel costs relating to Super JoJo” and 11 “Mr. Tregillis is precluded from testifying at trial about 12 allocation of purported costs and expenses for the infringing 13 Super JoJo works in the United States”). 14 Christian 3354 -- Schedule This schedule, and any other SUSTAINED. 15 Tregillis 8.4.1 to Rebuttal document including purportedly Report of allocated costs are in violation 16 Christian Tregillis of Dkt.

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