Thursday, January 31, 2008

Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million

Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under "gluttonous" PRO-IP Act. "Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In the RIAA's perfect world, each copied track would count as a separate act of infringement, meaning that a copying a ten-song CD even one time could end up costing a defendant $1.5 million if done willfully."

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