A US court has ruled that statutory damages may only recovered once per musical composition. A claim against a Yahoo music subscription service had asked for damages on 308 different versions of 205 musical compositions. Stated the Court: "Plaintiffs may only recover one award of statutory damages per musical composition per Defendant.”
Korea’s Supreme Court recently issued a decision affirming the lower court’s findings that providing a ‘deep link’ or ‘direct link’ is not considered ‘reproduction’ or ‘transmission’ as defined in the Copyright Act, and that therefore mere facilitation of internet links does not constitute copyright infringement. The plaintiff was the songwriter and copyright holder of the songs in question. The defendants were several online music service providers, which provided users with services for downloading and streaming songs, as well as ringtone and ringback tone services, via mobile phone networks.
