(DOWNLOAD) "Copying Copyright's Willful Infringement Standard: A Comparison of Enhanced Damages in Patent Law and Copyright Law." by Suffolk University Law Review # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Copying Copyright's Willful Infringement Standard: A Comparison of Enhanced Damages in Patent Law and Copyright Law.
- Author : Suffolk University Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 338 KB
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"The term willful is not unique to patent law, and it has a well-established meaning in the civil context. For instance, our sister circuits have employed a recklessness standard for enhancing statutory damages for copyright infringement. Under the Copyright Act, a copyright owner can elect to receive statutory damages, and trial courts have discretion to enhance the damages, up to a statutory maximum, for willful infringement. 17 U.S.C. [section] 504(c). Although the statute does not define willful, it has consistently been defined as including reckless behavior." (1) I. INTRODUCTION