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Old 12-07-2009, 01:39 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
I think Mr. Geist made a mistake. I'm pretty sure it's not $20k per song but $20k per copy sold because each sale is a separate act of infringement (I think). We're looking at what could literally be trillions in dollars in damages.
I think it's $20k per "infringement," which is probably per song, not per copy. I suspect that a corporation that grabs someone's book and publishes it w/o permission is fined per print run, not per individual copy sold.

It's possible that each sales *contract* counts as an infringement, so records of their distributors might be relevant.
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