Groups Submit Paper Opposing Higher Copyright Damages
From Public Knowledge:
In the wake of last month’s roundtable on proposed changes to copyright statutory damages, eight groups representing the public interest and industry submitted a white paper outlining the various reasons why it’s a bad idea to increase statutory damages for infringements of compilations and derivative works.The paper goes into some detail on the legislative history of copyright statutory damages, showing how the current law (which says that there should only be one award of statutory damages per compilation or derivative work) struck a balance between the old 1909 statute and proposals that would have limited all statutory damages to one award per case.