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And now comes the news from Reuters that the ultra-reclusive J.D. Salinger is suing the author of an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye, to be published by Nicotext: "J.D. Salinger on Monday sued the writer and publisher of a book billed as a sequel to his classic novel "The Catcher in the Rye," saying the work infringes on his copyright.
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It was decided that an interpretation of copyright law enabling the music industry to sue for more money than they've made in the history of recorded music was necessarily wrong, and accordingly the damages were reduced to "a single statutory damage award from Defendants per work infringed, regardless of how many individual users directly infringed that particular work".
Given that there is some overlap in the content of [the beta product] and [the current products], our client is concerned that Plaintiffs will claim that Boundless' aforementioned works infringe Plaintiffs' textbooks only after this case ends.
Motte issued a Bill of Complaint and sued under the Statute of Anne, claiming that Faulkner's publishing of the 1735 Works infringed on his right to publish works like Gulliver's Travels.
The spokeswoman told TechCrunch the list is not being published in part because the aim is to work with infringing websites to switch them over to a legal path — so it doesn't want to name and shame publicly when the website in question may subsequently clean up its act.
The court, he said, had been "a bit rapid" in its assessment of damages, given that the three publishing houses claim that about 10,000 of their works were infringed.
Statutory penalties for this case include judgments between $750 and $30,000 for each infringed work and up to $150,000 per song for willful infringement.
In addition to being expensive to litigate, a copyright lawsuit can result in statutory damages (which can range between $750 to $30,000 for each infringing work found on a website), some or all of an infringer's profits and even steeper penalties for willful infringement.
"Note: Providing us with search terms such as 'Artist A' or 'Song B' will not be considered reasonably sufficient for us to locate the alleged infringing work.
If there is some copying, courts typically look to whether the allegedly infringing work is "based upon" or "substantially similar to" the original work.
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label.
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