Electra Entertainment v. McDowell: Is a thirteen year old still innocent (infringer)?
By Zohar Efroni on November 14, 2007 at 4:17 pm
A federal district court in Georgia ordered a jury trial last week on the question whether a thirteen year old defendant was an innocent infringer or not. In Electra Entertainment Group Inc. V. Sarah McDowell (2007 WL 3286622 (M.D.Ga.), a teenager defendant admitted to have used P2P networks for exchanging sound recordings, but objected the demand of plaintiffs (the record companies) to pay maximum statutory damages of $750 per infringement, in this case 48 times, which makes the fine figure of $36k. Read more about Electra Entertainment v. McDowell: Is a thirteen year old still innocent (infringer)?
