Palmer Luckey—Found personally liable for $50 million in ZeniMax copyright infringement lawsuit
In February 2017, a jury found Palmer Luckey personally liable for $50 million in damages in ZeniMax Media's lawsuit against Oculus VR. The total verdict was $500 million against Oculus, Facebook, Luckey, and others. While the jury cleared Luckey of trade secret misappropriation and theft, they found him liable for copyright infringement related to the marketing of the Oculus Rift, specifically for violating an NDA he had signed with ZeniMax subsidiary id Software.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intellectual Property Ethics | -against | primary | -1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | -0.295 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.59)× agency (negligent ×0.5)
Evidence (1 signal)
Jury found Luckey personally liable for $50M in ZeniMax v. Oculus copyright case
In the ZeniMax Media v. Oculus VR lawsuit, a jury found Palmer Luckey personally liable for $50 million in damages for copyright infringement and NDA violation related to the marketing of the Oculus Rift. The total verdict was $500 million against Oculus, Facebook, Luckey, and others. Luckey was cleared of trade secret theft but found to have violated an NDA with ZeniMax subsidiary id Software.