How Much Do You Infringe On A Daily Basis?

Techdirt: The Infringement Age: How Much Do You Infringe On A Daily Basis?

Here are some examples...

• Replying to an email with quoted text? Infringement!
• Reply to 20 emails? You're looking at $3 million in statutory damages.
• Doodle a sketch of a building? Unauthorized derivative work.
• Read a poem outloud? Unauthorized performance.
• Forward a photograph that a friend took? Infringement!
• Take a short film of a birthday dinner with some friends and catch some artwork on the wall in the background? Infringement!

and my own....

• Video your child's birthday party with the radio playing in the back-ground. Infringement!
• Copy music from CD's you own to your iPod. Infringement
• Use a song on a DVD showing you childhood photos - Infringement
• Video tape you daughters dance recital - Infringement
• Sing a song in the shower - Unauthorized performance
• Copy a DVD you own to take on vacation with a portable player - Infringement
• My Favorite, post the above list to my blog -- INFRINGEMENT !!

The cost for all of this? (not including my examples)

All told, he has committed at least eighty-three acts of infringement and faces liability in the amount of $12.45 million [plus possible criminal charges]

Here is a link to the Actual Paper.