The US Department of Commerce’s (USDOC) Internet Policy Task Force has released a set of new guidelines it plans to recommend to congress in an effort to bring monetary awards to copyright holders back into the realm of reasonable. For years, copyright holders could sue online pirates for damages that could range into the millions. This was mostly due to limits on statutory damages, which could reach $150,000 per copied work. The Task Force isn’t seeking to lower these limits, but instead enact change in the way it awards damages. For example, under the current system an award has the potential to be…
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