Copyright Act, remedies for infringement: statutory damages (17 U.S.C. § 504(c))
Statutory damages run per work infringed, from a floor set in the same subsection up to the willful ceiling quoted here. Multiplied across a training corpus, this is why unlicensed copying carries a large price.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“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 $150,000.”
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