VITALY PILKIN V. GOOGLE LLC, No. 21-16346 (9th Cir. 2022)

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED APR 26 2022 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT VITALY E. PILKIN, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS No. 21-16346 Plaintiff-Appellant, v. D.C. No. 4:21-cv-01483-DMR MEMORANDUM* GOOGLE LLC, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Donna M. Ryu, Magistrate Judge, Presiding** Submitted April 11, 2022*** Before: McKEOWN, CHRISTEN, and BRESS, Circuit Judges. Vitaly E. Pilkin appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his action alleging copyright infringement. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The parties consented to proceed before a magistrate judge. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). *** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). 12(b)(6). Cervantes v. United States, 330 F.3d 1186, 1187 (9th Cir. 2003). We affirm. The district court properly dismissed Pilkin’s action because even if Pilkin’s disputed narrative may be protected by copyright, the ideas and processes it describes are not. See 17 U.S.C. § 102(b) (listing copyright protection exclusions, including any procedure, process, concept, or system, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work); Bikram’s Yoga Coll. of India, L.P. v. Evolation Yoga, LLC, 803 F.3d 1032, 1038 (9th Cir. 2015) (“[C]opyright for a work describing how to perform a process does not extend to the process itself.”). AFFIRMED. 2 21-16346

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