ABSTRACT
As we noted, many OSPs—thousands of commercial companies as well as public libraries, colleges, and universities-have been exposed to a legal claim of copyright infringement without even knowing it. Under copyright rules if someone copies, distributes, or displays a copyrighted work publicly without authority of the copyright owner or its agent, then a violation of law has occurred. Even innocent infringements are subject to penalties. In Chapter 6, we saw that, in addition to injunctive relief, a copyright owner prevailing in an infringement action may be entitled to receive actual damages and profits of the infringement, or statutory damages plus attorney's fees.
