Copy Left Trolls - How to Turn a Copyright Troll

A new kind of predator specifically targets people who operate in good faith using only materials that they have explicitly been given permission to use. Copyright law provides for a hundred and 50 thousand dollars in statutory damages for wilful infringement. If you violate someone else's copyright and they can prove that you knew you were breaking copyright law, they can hit you for up to 150 million dollars. The 20 tens were the decade of the copyright troll. As a small number of extremely prolific troll firms made tens of millions of dollars while ruining thousands of everyday internet users lives.