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Per-Song or Per-Album? Record Labels Challenge Court's Piracy Damages Ruling (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Several major record labels are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a rehearing en banc in their piracy lawsuit against Grande Communications. They argue that the court erred in holding that piracy damages should be calculated per album, rather than per song. They argue that this decision, which will lower the $47 million damages award, doesn't reflect the way that music is commercialized today.

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[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

When corporations steal from their employees by wage theft, they are penalized “double damages” or twice what they stole. Seems that would be reasonable to apply to this.