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UMG Calls Infringement Damages "Excessive"

Posted by timothy on from the for-thee-and-not-for-me dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Why would UMG, one of the four major RIAA members, consider an infringement award 'grossly excessive'? Naturally, because they were the ones ordered to pay it. While they had no trouble with Jammie Thomas being ordered to pay $222k, some 13,214 times the actual costs, they thought that being ordered to pay ten times the actual damages in Bridgeport v. Justin Combs was just too much. Then again, maybe that's why they didn't complain back when the increased statutory damages section was cut from the PRO-IP Act? Now if they could just cut the rest of the act."

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  1. One standard for you, one standard for me... by GBC · · Score: 5, Funny

    You wish to engage in corporate hypocrisy:
    >cancel
    >allow

  2. Wow... by Darundal · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I never thought I would be rooting FOR an RIAA member in a copyright case.

  3. Re:Record Companies Owe ME ! by Fx.Dr · · Score: 4, Funny

    hunt out every single fan at a concert and ask permission to use their vocal performance on a live album

    Nah, they'll just sue the living hell out of you for singing a protected work without paying your dues.

    Now bend over, the RIAA has their own idea of 'audience participation'.

  4. Re:Record Companies Owe ME ! by DannyO152 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You are absolutely correct.

    I was at a Rockpile show at the Hollywood Palladium in the late 70s and Bob Ezrin got on stage and said he wanted to record us cheering for an upcoming Pink Floyd recording. So, I've put "The Wall" on my discography. Is that wrong?

  5. Re:wth editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But hyperbole is the best thing EVER!

  6. Re:Record Companies Owe ME ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damned EULAs. But what if you snuck in..?

  7. Re:Actually I wonder by Ahnteis · · Score: 3, Funny

    We'd call it wroshyyr's law, but no one could remember that. :P