Broadcast Music, Inc. v. DeGallo, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• awarding five times the $702.00 licensing fee because where “the license fee avoided is low, damages of only two or three times the license fee might yield an award insufficient to accomplish” deterrence
• awarding five times the $702.00 licensing fee because where “the license fee avoided is low, damages of only two or three times the license fee might yield an award insufficient to accomplish” deterrence
• “With due allowance for the level of culpability involved, the penalty must be proportionate to the extent of the infringement.”
• awarding damages “approximately five times the license fee”
• awarding damages “approximately five times the license fee”
• awarding 12 “approximately five times the license fee”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).