Re: personal liability for copyright infringement

On 10/9/1997, Mark Lemley <mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there any set of circumstances under which a corporate officer can
> be held personally liable for acts of copyright infringement by the
> corporation, *without* piercing the corporate veil?

See Barnaby Music Corp. v. Catoctin Broadcasting, W.D.N.Y. 1988 (Corporate officer in a position to control and supervise operations of radio station is vicariously liable (jointly with corporation) for performance right infrigement).

Sheldon W. Halpern
The Ohio State University College of Law <shalpern[_at_]pop.service.ohio-state.edu> Received on Fri Oct 10 1997 - 14:37:31 GMT