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Originally Posted by Mtt48
She can sue here or in her jurisdiction. It would make more sense to sue you here however as there would be a chance of actually collecting on any decision because presumably your money is here. Even if a decision against you is made in her jurisdiction, she could probably eventually end up getting a court order forcing you to comply with a judgment.
There is a provision in the Copyright Act for the situation where you did not know you were actually infringing,
Injunction only remedy when defendant not aware of copyright
39. (1) Subject to subsection (2), in any proceedings for infringement of copyright, the plaintiff is not entitled to any remedy other than an injunction in respect of the infringement if the defendant proves that, at the date of the infringement, the defendant was not aware and had no reasonable ground for suspecting that copyright subsisted in the work or other subject-matter in question.
Exception where copyright registered
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if, at the date of the infringement, the copyright was duly registered under this Act.
Basically, if this applies then she could only have an injunction granted (ie: you take her stuff off the website) and no damages ($$$) would be awarded. The onus is on you here to prove that you did not know what you were doing was wrong.
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Great I'll pass that along to him but, I wonder if the law is different in Georgia. Maybe that is why they would prosecute in the States.