Calling Capital Records Inc.’s copyright win against defunct music storage service MP3tunes and its founder a “Pyrrhic victory,” a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Friday that he’d grant the record company “only a fraction” of the $7 million it asked for in attorney fees.
In March 2014, after a lengthy trial, a jury found MP3tunes and its founder Michael Robertson liable for infringing Capitol Records’ copyrights and awarded $48 million in damages. U.S. District Judge William Pauley III slashed the award to $12.2 million in September, however, ruling that many of the record company’s claims were “just too big to succeed.” (MP3tunes is no longer in business, and Robertson has appealed.)
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