For those who have not followed this case from the beginning - she was offered the opportunity to settle for $5000 and declined when she got some anti-copyright lawyers to handle her case pro bono. Then after losing once at $88,000, her lawyers wanted another trial and the second time the RIAA was granted an award of $1.92 million by the Jury! The RIAA offered to settle it for $25K and she (and her lawyers) declined again and the activist judge said that it should not be over $2,250 per song ($54,000). The most recent trial was solely on the fines and again, the jury (NOT THE RIAA) saw fit to "punish" her with the $1.5 Million for her 24 songs.
In Trademark infringements, the Statutory penalty is $200,000 a mark (we have two of them) and the maximum Statutory for Willful infringement is 10 times as high or $2,000,000 a mark.
Sort of makes our $1.42/song settlement ($6800/4800 songs) seem way undervalued. And the opportunity to "get legal" in advance by licensing the catalog of 6000 songs for $4480 a relative "steal" (pun intended).
Hmm, makes me think that all those advocating that a KJ host, using our stolen tracks for commercial purposes, should go ahead and fight us in court, just don't realize that recent cases have NOT been in favor of the pirates.