What are the remedies for infringement of copyright?
If a court decides that someone has infringed copyright, then the court can award the following against the infringer: • An injunction to stop any further infringement; • Damages to compensate for infringement: this is usually assessed as the fee that would have been charged for a licence to do the act that amounted to infringement; • Additional damages for a particularly flagrant infringement, where ordinary damages would not be sufficient to compensate; • An account of profits made by the infringer as a result of the infringement: this means that the infringer has to give up all his profits from the infringement to the copyright owner — this is an alternative to damages; • Delivery up and destruction of the infringing items.
