Pro-IP Update: Statutory Damages Provision Removed

The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, The Internet, and Intellectual Property has sent its version of the PRO-IP Act to the full committee, but in the process has removed the proposed amendment to the statutory damages provision of 17 USC 504, which I discussed in my previous post. Clearly the subcommittee members have heard the calls of the many detractors who believe that this provision was poorly thought out.

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) added a written statement to the record assuring all that the notion of statutory damages for component parts of a compilation remained "subject matter for another day." That should keep the RIAA and MPAA campaign contributions coming in.