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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
In other words, if this is an accurate representation of the law, you can make a number of copies and distribute them for free (this paragraph doesn't address the profit aspect, but it's there elsewhere in the law) as long as the retail value of those copies is less than $1000 over a six-month period.
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That's if she's correct and if I've interpreted the paragraph correctly.
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That's criminal, not civil. Civil copyright infringement has
different requirements:
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(a) Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 122 or of the author as provided in section 106A(a), or who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be.
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No minimums that I could find. Financial penalties range from "all actual damages & profits," or statutory limits of $750-30,000 per violation for accidental, and up to $150,000 for willful infringement.
I'd argue I believed my "infringement" was fair use & shouldn't be tagged as willful, but I have no idea what a court would decide. (I'm mostly counting on the idea that the author wants the article read, and since it's on a free-public-view website, probably doesn't care if people print out copies or save them to their hard drives or port them to other devices, as long as no money is moving around with them.)