What is a Compilation under S. 504
Posted April 21, 2006 07:56 AM
WB Music Corp. v. RTV Communication Group, Inc., No. 04-3890 (2d Cir. April 19, 2006)[pdf]:
The district court computed statutory damages based on seven “compilations,” in the form of compact discs prepared by the defendants, that infringed the copyrights in thirteen separate works owned by the plaintiffs. We hold that, for purposes of statutory damages under § 504(c), a compilation created without authorization from the owners of the separate, infringed copyrights in its constituent parts is not a compilation contemplated by the last sentence of § 504(c)(1), which states that “[f]or the purposes of this subsection, all the parts of a compilation or derivative work constitute one work.”
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