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Copyright Law of the United States of America: contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. by United States;Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable
jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $250 or more than
$10,000 as the court considers just. For the purposes of this
subsection, all the parts of a compilation or derivative work
constitute one work.

(2) In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of
proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed
willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of
statutory damages to a sum of not more than $50,000. In a case where
the infringer sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that
such infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his
or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright, the it [sic] its
discretion may reduce the award of statutory damages to a sum of
not less than $100. The court shall remit statutory damages in any
case where an infringer believed and had reasonable grounds for
believing that his or her use of the copyrighted work was a fair use
under section 107, if the infringer was: (i) an employee or agent of a
nonprofit educational institution, library, or archives acting within
the scope of his or her employment who, or such institution, library,
or archives itself, which infringed by reproducing the work in copies
or phonorecords; or (ii) a public broadcasting entity which or a
person who, as a regular part of the nonprofit activities of a public
broadcasting entity (as defined in subsection (g) of section 118)
infringed by performing a published nondramatic literary work or
by reproducing a transmission program embodying a performance of
such a work.


Section 505. Remedies for infringement: Costs and attorney's fees.
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