Rivalarrival comments on Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna's Archive for $13trillion for "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings"

Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna's Archive for $13trillion for "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings" (www.nme.com)

submitted 9 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They multiplied the "statutory damages" per work times the number of works alleged to have been infringed. The statutory maximum is $150,000 per work.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

That's a compelling argument, but my version is funnier.

I'm illiterate in US copyright law, so nobody take my comment as anything else than a joke

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[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago

And they pay how much to the artists per work?

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