Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 20 Oct 2010
In a copyright infringement action, the court rejected the defendant’s request for a jury instruction that states “statutory damages must bear a reasonable relationship to the harm suffered by each plaintiff.”
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 27 Jan 2010
In peer-to-peer copyright infringement action, court grants defendant’s motion for remittitur and reduces jury’s statutory damage award from $1,920,000 to $54,000 after holding that jury’s statutory damages award is shocking and unjust; court concludes that treble the minimum statutory damages amount of $750 per song is the maximum amount the jury could properly have awarded.