Adobe Copyright Suit Over ColdFusion

On May 4, Adobe, Inc. filed a complaint against Silk Road Technology, Inc. (Silk Road), alleging that the company breached a software license agreement and infringed on its copyrights relating to an Adobe product called ColdFusion. This case is being held in the Northern District of California before Magistrate Judge Donna M. Riu.

ColdFusion is an Adobe-owned website building software, whose licensees must use the product only for internal use within a company. As summarized by the complaint, “ColdFusion licensees use the product to create websites internal to their companies where their employees can submit expense reports or track inventory.” Unless a custom hosting license is created, the use of ColdFusion by and for third parties is prohibited. Against Adobe’s…