05 Feb, 2020 “What is Your (Statutory) Damage, Heather?”: Two Statutory Damages Decisions Out of the Fifth Circuit By Brian Murphy When, in the deliciously subversive film Heathers, Veronica (played by Winona Ryder) snaps at Heather Chandler (a.k.a. "Heather #1"),...
01 Nov, 2019 Liebowitz Award Limited Even After Default Judgment By Edward H. Rosenthal Photographer John Marshall Mantel took a picture of an artist named Joe Reginella standing next to a sculpture he had created. Mantel...
24 Jul, 2019 $750 Statutory Damage Award to Liebowitz Client in Otto v. Hearst is Explained by Court By Edward H. Rosenthal In a post last week, I described a recent SDNY case in which the Court found that an amateur photographer had suffered only $100 in...
21 Jul, 2019 Liebowitz Wins Statutory Damage Award -- But It’s Only $750 By Edward H. Rosenthal Following a one-day bench trial, SDNY Judge Geoffrey Woods awarded the plaintiff in a copyright infringement case $750 in statutory...