The Copyright Act explicitly states that copyright infringers can be held liable for either: (1) the copyright holder’s actual damages and the infringer’s profits, or (2) statutory damages ranging from $750 to $30,000 per infringement, if actual damages are difficult to calculate.175 If a copyright holder requests statutory damages, the court can increase the maximum award to $150,000 if the court finds that “infringement was committed willfully . . . .”176 Although statutory damages thus have a very broad range of $750 to $150,000, it is within a judge’s discretion to decide how much to actually
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