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112820P.pdf 09/11/2012 Capitol Records, Inc. v. Jammie Thomas-Rasset
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-2820
and No: 11-2858
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Murphy and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Copyright. In this action alleging defendant violated
plaintiffs' copyrights in recorded music by engaging in file-sharing on the
Internet, when the district entered judgment after the verdict in the third
trial, the court should have enjoined defendant from making copyrighted
works available to the public, whether or not that conduct by itself
violates rights under the Copyright Act; the statutory damages of at least
$220,000 were constitutional, and the district court erred in holding the
Due Process Clause allowed statutory damages of only $54,000;
judgment vacated and the case remanded with directions to enter a
judgment that includes those remedies.