me before final judgment is rendered, to
recover instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory
damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to
any one work, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or
for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally,
in a sum of not less than $250 or more than $10,000 as the court
considers just. For the purposes of this subsection, all the parts of
a compilation or derivative work constitute one work.
(2) In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving,
and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the
court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to
a sum of not more than $50,000. In a case where the infringer sustains
the burden of proving, and the court finds, that such infringer was not
aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an
infringement of copyright, the it [sic] its discretion may reduce the
award of statutory damages to a sum of not less than $100. The court
shall remit statutory damages in any case where an infringer believed
and had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her use of the
copyrighted work was a fair use under section 107, if the infringer
was: (i) an employee or agent of a nonprofit educational institution,
library, or archives acting within the scope of his or her employment
who, or such institution, library, or archives itself, which infringed
by reproducing the work in copies or phonorecords; or (ii) a public
broadcasting entity which or a person who, as a regular part of the
nonprofit activities of a public broadcasting entity (as defined in
subsection (g) of section 118) infringed by performing a published
nondramatic literary work or by reproducing a transmission program
embodying a performance of such a work.
Section 505. Remedies for infringement: Costs and attorney's fees.
In any civil action under this title, the court in its discretion may
allow the recovery of full costs by or against any party other than the
United States or an officer thereof. Except as otherwise provided by
this title, the court may also award a reasonable attorney's fee to the
prevailing party as part of the costs.
Section 506. Criminal offenses.
(a) Criminal infringement.--Any person who infringes a copyright
willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private
financial gain shall be pu
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