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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 10:05 AM EDT |
That doesn't make any s...
Oh, wait, RIAA logic.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
The copyright infringement occurred outside the US. So US law (including
the copyright act) does not apply.
The $150,000.- maximum statutory
damages is per work infringed. So that would be 150,000 for all copies of
Harry Potter 1, another $150,000 for Harry Potter 2, $150,000 for
"Beauty and the Beast", and so on. There are a lot of titles, but I don't think
you'd get into the billions.
Still makes me chuckle every time I see an
unskippable add admonishing me to not buy illegal copies, knowing the music is
in fact an illegal copy. Also makes me hesitate each time if I need to dial the
anti-piracy hotline that appears at the end. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 07:04 PM EDT |
71 works1 at a cost of $80,000 a pop =
$5,680,000.
Of course the Judge in the Rasset case dropped the
amount. But it's nice to consider the potential as equally applied to those who
are arguing for such fines.
1: They are commercial works, so one would
think a higher fine would be appropriate. However, I went with what I recall
the Jury fined Thomas-Rasset.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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