Gamma Audio & Video, Inc. v. Ean-Chea D/B/A Overseas Video

How courts have described this case

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• holding that registering copyrights as multiple works on a single registration form does not preclude the owner from collecting an award of statutory damages for the infringement of each individual work
• noting that \the trial judge is in the best position to assess the credibility of witnesses\
• explaining that “separate copyrights are not distinct ‘works’ unless they can live their own copyright life”—a viability determination that turns on whether the work in question has independent economic value
• explaining that “separate copyrights are not distinct ‘works’ unless they can live their own copyright life”—a viability determination that turns on whether the work in question has independent economic value
• explaining that “separate copyrights are not distinct ‘works’ unless they can live their own copyright life”—a viability determination that turns on whether the work in question has independent economic value
• focusing on whether each television episode “has an independent economic value and is, in itself, viable”

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