The Innocent Infringement Defense

Copyright law has changed substantially in the last fifty years. These changes, when combined with the strict liability component associated with copyright infringement, make it easier for copyright holders to defend and enforce their exclusive rights. Unfortunately in the digital age it is just as easy to commit an act of infringement against those rights. The advent of the internet has irreversibly smashed the world of copyright and innocence together, and the ability for a single act of infringement to propagate to an unstoppable viral infringement has never been more disconcerting.