PRO-IP法：アルバムは1つの作品ではなく複数の著作物の集まり。では雑誌は？

Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In the RIAA's perfect world, each copied track would count as a separate act of infringement, meaning that a copying a ten-song CD even one time could end up costing a defendant $1.5 million if done willfully. Sound fair? Proportional? Necessary? Not really, but that doesn't mean it won't become law.

Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under "gluttonous" PRO-IP Act

現行法においても、Jammie Thomasは24曲の楽曲1つ1つに対して、それぞれ9,000ドル以上の損害賠償が命じられているわけで、PRO-IP法による更なる強化など必要はないどころか、現時点でも行き過ぎの感もある。

The Magazine Publishers Association, for instance, argued for maintaining the current law. If the PRO-IP Act passes, anyone found guilty of copying a magazine could be liable for hundreds of separate acts of infringement (at the judge's discretion), but magazine accused of copyright violations would face similarly huge penalties.

確かにそうなれば雑誌なんてのは膨大な数の著作物の集積物とみなされるわけで、その扱いが更に複雑になることは間違いない。
闇雲に自分たちの都合のよいような解釈を推し進めれば、いずれは多くの人がそれに悩まされることになる。