sfaust, no punitive damages available under Fed Copyright claim. Registered or not.
http://blawg.scottandscottllp.com …e_damages_under_fede.html
"Viacom’s well-publicized court fight against YouTube and Google his given Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York an opportunity – or, perhaps more accurately – a good reason to now repudiate one of his prior decisions that seemed to leave the door open for punitive damages in copyright infringement cases."
"Judge Stanton denied the motion and made clear in surprisingly blunt terms that, to the extent that the opinion in Blanch was good law, it had been roundly rejected by other courts and commentators. As the court here held: “It is time to extinguish the ignis fatuus held out by Blanch. Common-law punitive damages cannot be recovered under the Copyright Act.”
