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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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Re: Copyrights and Wrongs 2007-12-17
Mark D. Rasch
First, of course this is NOT legal advice. However, the fact that a copyrighted work is "not in print" or not acessible by the copyright holder does not mean that the work loses any copyright protection. The goal of copyright law was to allow the copyright holder to commerically exploit their work...

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