Re: Infringements per year

From: David Dailey <david.dailey[_at_]sru.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:55:01 -0400

At 09:00 PM 4/6/2006, Virgil Varvel wrote:
>Does anyone know or know of a way to find out how many copyright
>infringement cases occur in a given year? For example, how many
>educational institutions per year have been charged with copyright
>infringement?

Here's a note I posted to this group in 1995 about exactly such a thing at Cornell's law school. (thanks to Google for caching it (by implied permission I assume?), since the CNI stuff seems to have disappeared)

I doubt that the URL would still be the same and don't know if you can break down queries by categories of defendants ... but that would be a place to start looking I think. It would also be interesting to know if the settlement size has grown with time. (I always like it when standard deviations are bigger than means).

David Dailey

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Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 11:59:06 -0400
From: David Dailey
<<mailto:David.P.Dailey[_at_]williams.edu>David.P.Dailey<mailto:David.P.Dailey[_at_]williams.edu>@williams.edu>

I thought this may be of interest to this group:

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The following statistics came from a very nice service of The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. The service (at <http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/statistics.html>http://www.law.cornell<http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/statistics.html>.edu/focus/statistics.html) allows the
user to specify a category of the law and to generate a statistical report based on over 3.5 million Federal District-Court civil cases, representing 15 years. (It does not include criminal cases or federal appellate cases).

The following data excerpted from a report on "copyright" is noteworthy:

1. From 1978-1993, 634 copyright trials were completed (by judge or jury decision).
2. 73% of these were won by the plaintiff.
3. The average duration (from filing to termination) was 697 days.
4. The average award was $688,457 (with a standard deviation of $2.1 Million)

(for patent cases: a. 1260 b. 55% c. 1229 d. $2,173,645 for trademarks: a. 1059 b. 68% c. 645 d. $949,822)

David Dailey
<mailto:(ddailey[_at_]williams.edu>(ddailey[_at_]williams.edu) Received on Sat Apr 08 2006 - 07:55:01 GMT