Disney Awarded Injunction Against Redbox Download Code Sales

Redbox can no longer individually sell download codes from Disney DVD and Blu-ray combo packs since it didn't get ownership rights to the digital content when it bought the combo packs, said U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson of Los Angeles in a docket 17-cv-08655-DDP-AGR order (in Pacer) entered Thursday, granting Disney's motion for preliminary injunction (see 1804100002). Pregerson dismissed as wrong Redbox's argument it can be liable for contributory copyright infringement only if it had the subjective intent to be an infringer. Redbox outside counsel didn't comment.