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Copyrights and Wrongs
Mark Rasch, 2007-12-11

On October 1, 2007, Jammie Thomas -- a single mother living in Brainerd, Minnesota -- was sued in civil court for copyright infringement by the Recording Industry Association of America. Three days later, the jury returned the verdict; Ms. Thomas was liable for willfully infringing the copyrights on 24 songs. The fine: $222,000.

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Copyright types 2007-12-14
Anonymous
Can you expand on the difference between an implicit copyright and a registered one? That law change a few decades ago caused an implicit copyright to be created upon creation of the work, but I thought you still had to formally register it and its derivative works in order to get the big damages....

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