Case Study: Jammie Thomas-Rasset

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to $2,250 per song. The Recording Industry of America and Capital Records stepped into the case and offered a settlement to Jammie Thomas- Rasset. They offered a settlement amount of $25,000, but Jammie refused to pay that amount either. Due to the inability for the plaintiffs and defendant coming up with a solution this case was assigned to a special master.

Due to the incapability to come up with a settlement and solution the court conducted a third trial for this case in November 2010. During this trial date they looked for ways to determine the amount of damage done by Jammie-Thomas Rasset. They look at the damage and based it on a wide range dollar amount. The wide range they were looking between consisted of $750-$150,000 per song.

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