Brand New!! Copyright Infringement - Why Courts Build People Pay

If you lot infringe copyright you lot tin travel liable for fiscal damages relating to:

• the fiscal produce goodness you lot derived through the role of the images
• the fiscal produce goodness lost past times the copyright owners (e.g. licensing fees) 
• a punishment for the abuse of copyright

This weblog post Court Awards Maximum Statutory Damages for Copyright Infringement (on PhotoAttorney) sets out what happened inward a recent representative relating to Getty Images inward which the latter were awarded maximum damages of £300,000.

It appears wilful disregard for "cease in addition to desist" notices relating to images tin forthwith lawsuit inward approximately really big penalties!

Penalties inward the representative nether discussion:

The courtroom awarded $21,433.00 inward actual damages for defendants’ infringing x images that were non timely registered. After an evidentiary hearing, the courtroom too awarded Getty $300,000.00 for the defendants’ willful infringement of 2 images.

The post service highlights that:

The courtroom looked at iv factors to decide the appropriate total of statutory damages:

(1) the infringer’s profits in addition to expenses saved because of the infringement;

(2) the plaintiff’s lost revenues;

(3) the potent world involvement inward ensuring the integrity of copyright laws; and

(4) whether the infringer acted willfully.

While the offset 2 factors did non back upward an accolade for maximum damages, the concluding 2 did.

The rationale for the fiscal accolade made inward favour of Getting Images is explained inward the sentence in addition to Court's Order.

So if you lot desire your photographic images licensed in addition to protected Getty Images seems similar a adept house to be!

This is their Contributor site. This page indicates what they're looking for inward images

Now nosotros only postulate a "terrier" version for artwork....

Thanks to:

• Mia McPherson for highlighting this representative on Facebook - inward the Copyright Infringement Cases Group
• Leslie Hawes for highlighting that a courtroom has too ruled that the Twitter TOS does non absolve intelligence agencies from getting permission to role an picture from a tweet online - see Judge Rules News Agencies Cannot Use Twitter Photos Without Permission

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