EMI Mills Music, Inc. v. Empress Hotel, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “courts routinely compute statutory damages . . . between two to six times the license fees defendants ‘saved’ by not obeying the Copyright Act”
• detailing the warnings that the defendants received that their conduct violated the Copyright Act and concluding that the defendants’ “public performance ... was deliberate and willful”
• awarding $15,000.00 per work where defendants “repeatedly rejected and ignored [plaintiff’s] offerings and acted as if they were not subject to the copyright laws”

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