How to Defend Against Copyright Infringement Claims by Copyright Trolls?
Under Copyright Law, all those who participate in displaying or distributing the unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work is liable to infringement. With this rule, and the ease to copy things online, and increasingly, the ease of finding such copies, the vulnerabilities to get hit by copyright trolls have increased manifold.
Copyright Troll It is a term used to represent copyright owners who threaten litigation over the use of their copyrighted content to extract extreme license fees. The tactic, in common, is based on provisions for awards of Intellectual Property (IP) Attorneys‘ fees and statutory damages to successful plaintiffs in the copyright infringement lawsuit, which can result in damages many times higher than the typical license fees. In general, the step-wise process of copyright trolling includes finding the copyrighted content online, sending license fee demands, and then processing payments. Note that although the allegations of infringement and demands for fees by copyright trolls are invalid in many cases, still ignoring them isn’t safe at all. As many reports show that almost every business with a website is vulnerable to copyright trolling, it is crucial to deal with the demands from copyright trolls promptly and appropriately.