Tag / statutory damages
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Graffiti Artists’ VARA Copyright Win Gets Tacit Thumbs Up from SCOTUS
A collective of 21 New York graffiti artists at a Queens warehouse known as the 5Pointz complex can rest easy now that the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear an…
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Celebrity Attracts Wrong Kind of Attention with Copyright Infringement
Khloe Kardashian has been hit with a copyright infringement suit for posting a photo of herself taken by an international celebrity photo agency named Xposure Photos UK LTD. After review of the…
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“Teeth” of Copyright Law Getting Lots of Attention in 2016
Awards of statutory damages and attorney’s fees give copyright law its “teeth” to discourage infringers. Sometimes, the mere credible possibility of these two remedies can force an early settlement of copyright infringement…
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Photo Infringement Case Instructs on Fair Use, Web Dev Contracts
A decision in a recent copyright infringement case in the Northern District of California shows that cries of fair use may fall on deaf ears if there is no discernable transformative use…
