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What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update

Traverse Legal Blog

The infringer owes at a minimum a reasonable royalty to the copyright holder. Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update) Accidental copyright infringement occurs when someone unknowingly violates copyright law.

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Amazon, Lee Child & John Grisham Win $7.8m Judgment Against eBook Pirates

TorrentFreak

In a summer 2020 lawsuit , Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child, accused several pirate eBook sites of infringing their copyrights. “The Court therefore awards Plaintiffs’ the maximum statutory amount of $150,000 for each of the [copyrighted works].”

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DMCA Scammers Exploit Sites Linked to Mental Health Issues to Boost SEO

TorrentFreak

For website operators trying to get information into the public eye, the last thing they need are legal threats claiming that they’ve infringed someone’s copyrights. Copyright lawsuits have a reputation of being expensive to defend so, when threatened, most people take the easiest way out.