To what extent am I personally liable as a faculty member, student or employee of the University of Pittsburgh for violating copyright law?
Both the University and the individual may be liable in a civil suit for willful infringement of copyright law for damages of up to $100,000. The copyright law in Section 504 (c)(2) states that damages may be remitted (i.e. not enforced) under the following conditions: The court shall remit statutory damages in any case where an infringer believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her use of the copyrighted work was a fair use under section 107, if the infringer was: (i) an employee or agent of a nonprofit educational institution, library, or archives acting within the scope of his or her employment who, or such institution, library, or archives itself, which infringed by reproducing the work in copies or phonorecords; … This would require the infringer to prove in court that he or she reasonably thought the use in question fell under fair use, however, and would not necessarily prevent the filing of a lawsuit or subsequent attorney and court fees. Willful copyrigh
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