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Statutory damages can in some cases be significantly more than the actual damages suffered by the rightsholder or the profits of the infringer. At least in the United States, the original rationale for statutory damages was that it would often be difficult to establish the number of copies that had been made by an underground pirate business ...
The district court's ruling of infringement of a song's common law copyright, granting an injunction so that damages could be determined, was interlocutory. The appeal came too late, so the Court vacated the appeal.
There are two types of damages: actual damages and profits, or statutory damages. [91] The copyright owner may recover the profits he or she would have earned absent the infringement (actual damages) and any profits the infringer might have made as a result of the infringement but that are not already considered in calculating actual damages. [91]
After 5 hours of deliberation on June 18, the jury found Thomas-Rasset liable for willful copyright infringement of all the songs in question, and awarded the plaintiffs statutory damages of $1.92 million ($80,000 per song, within the allowed range of $750 to $150,000).
The lawsuit seeks to enjoin Perplexity from “the unlawful copying of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted content without Plaintiffs’ authorization” and statutory copyright infringement damages, “up ...
The lawsuit seeks damages from Kiffin on one count of copyright infringement resulting from a pair of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. The filing did not include a specific financial demand.
The range of allowable statutory damages in civil actions for copyright infringement was established by a previous act as a minimum of $500 per work, and a maximum of either $20,000 or $100,000 per work, depending on whether the infringement was "willful."
Nealy said he did not learn of the alleged copyright violations until 2016, and requested damages for copyright infringement that he said started as early as 2008. But the Atlanta-based 11th U.S ...