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infringement after notice or knowledge of the copyright or in reckless disregard of the copyright, the effect of the defendant's prior or concurrent copyright infringement activity, whether profit or gain was established, the value of the copyright, the need to deter this defendant and other potential infringers, and any mitigating circumstances." The amounts were to be assessed within the statutory range of $ 750 to $ 150,000 per song. On
November 4, 2010, a jury in Minneapolis decided that the amount should be $ 62,500 per song, for a total award to the plaintiffs of $ 1.5 million.
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copyright owners") or the distribution right (via Thomas-Rasset "distributing copyrighted sound recordings to other users on a peer-to-peer network, without license from the copyright owners"). For each song reproduced or distributed, the infringement had to be assessed as willful or non-willful, and damages assessed accordingly. The jury was not allowed to be specific in its verdict about which rights (distribution or reproduction) were infringed, and the judge did not attempt to define distribution in the second trial.
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case as precedent, argued that due process was satisfied by a jury's statutory damage award, regardless of whether it bears "a reasonable relation to the plaintiff's actual injury...regardless of whether actual damages can be proven, regardless of whether the defendant's infringement was willful, and
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format, not MP3 as found in the shared folder. On the stand, Thomas-Rasset speculated that perhaps her children or then-boyfriend had installed Kazaa on her computer without her knowledge. Closing arguments focused on the fact that none of the evidence pointed to Thomas-Rasset personally, but only to
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should have been inadmissible because it was collected in violation of state private investigator and wiretap statutes. The motion called for either a retrial with that evidence suppressed, a reduction of damages to the statutory minimum ($ 750 per song; $ 18,000 total), or a removal of statutory
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groups—indicating they were likely downloaded, not ripped from her own CDs. Although only 24 songs were at issue, plaintiffs told the jury that 1,700-plus songs were in the shared folder, that "a message must be sent", and that the infringement was "substantial" and "massive". At one point, the
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and wiretapping laws. In rejecting these arguments, the court said that the MPDA did not apply to an out-of-state entity like MediaSentry, and that "There is no expectation of solitude or seclusion when a person activates a file sharing program and sends a file to the requesting computer. By
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In July 2011, the court ruled that the $ 1.5 million award was "so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense and obviously unreasonable." The court again reduced the jury award to $ 54,000, or $ 2,250 per song. The record labels filed for appeal in the
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to avoid paying the RIAA the $ 222,000. The RIAA suggested that it would accept a lower payment if Thomas-Rasset would make a video about copyright infringement, which she refused. As of April 2016, the RIAA had not announced receipt of any payments from Thomas-Rasset.
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letter and settlement offer in August 2005. Thomas declined the settlement offer. On April 19, 2006, several major record labels sued Thomas for copyright infringement by unauthorized downloading and sharing of 24 sound recordings on
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Thomas-Rasset "was distributing 1,702 sound recordings ... to millions of other users," and that the plaintiffs would face "great and irreparable harm" were she to continue to infringe upon their copyrights.
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brief providing further arguments in favor of the plaintiffs' point of view. Both briefs contend that making-available is a form of distribution, and that actual damages are irrelevant to statutory damages.
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participating in Kazaa, a user expects millions of other users to view and copy her files, each time receiving the very information that Thomas-Rasset sent to MediaSentry and MediaSentry recorded."
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containing the copyrighted songs was never presented at the trial, though Thomas did turn over a hard drive that referenced neither Kazaa nor the infringing files to the plaintiffs' attorneys.
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Statutory damages reduced to $ 54,000 ($ 2,250/song).
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Krauskopf, Lewis; Haycock, Gavin (October 5, 2007).
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Thomas-Rasset's counsel asked the Supreme Court for
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1175:"Defense Planting Seeds of Doubt with RIAA Jurors"
221:Statutory damages of $ 1,500,000 ($ 62,500/song).
187:Statutory damages of $ 1,920,000 ($ 80,000/song).
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2043:"Petition for a writ of certiorari"
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1578:Anderson, Nate (January 22, 2010).
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2118:"Certiorari — Summary Disposition"
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240:Appeal, U.S. Circuit Court (8th)
89:Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians
1701:Sheffner, Ben (August 9, 2010).
1508:Anderson, Nate (June 18, 2009).
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1111:Minnesota Public Radio
984:Save the Best for Last
695:Coming Out of the Dark
161:1st civil jury trial,
40:copyright infringement
2023:on September 11, 2012
1008:Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum
746:Welcome to the Jungle
627:Pour Some Sugar on Me
482:Appellate proceedings
409:Motion for injunction
129:17 USC 92 § 504(c)(2)
797:Don't Stop Believin'
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2011:"Appellate ruling"
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950:Building a Mystery
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