Chi-Boy Music, Realsongs and Virgin Music, Incorporated v. Charlie Club, Incorporated and Charles Vavrus

How courts have described this case

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• upholding district court’s grant of statutory award for willful infringement that was approximately three times the amount due under past license agreements
• discussing notice, deliberate ignorance, and past dealings between the parties as relevant to finding of willful infringement
• awarding 17 “approximately three times the amount due under past license agreements”
• \Evidence of past reluctance by an infringer to pay copyright fees certainly is relevant in assessing his present infringements.\
• “[E]vidence that notice had been accorded to the alleged infringer before the specific acts found to have constituted infringement occurred is perhaps the most persuasive evidence of willfulness . . . .”
• “[E]vidence that notice had been accorded to the alleged infringer before the specific acts found to have constituted infringement occurred is perhaps the most persuasive evidence of willfulness . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).