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Free U.S. copyright damages planner: statutory floor and ceiling by work count, willful toggle for the higher cap, and optional actual damages plus infringer's profits line. Use with other Legal & Compliance IP tools—not a substitute for § 504 analysis by counsel.
Last updated: April 13, 2026
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Statutory damages generally require timely registration per § 412; this field is a count for math only.
Statutory floor (per § 504)
$1,500
$750 × works
Statutory ceiling (illustrative)
$60,000
$30,000 × works
Mid planning anchor (not a verdict)
~$24,000
Actual + profits (your inputs)
$8,000
Electing statutory can foreclose actual damages/ profits in some cases; counsel analyzes election strategy.
Illustrative statutory band 1,500–60,000 across 2 work(s); actual + profits path modeled at $8,000 from your inputs.
Important:
Best for
Rights holders
Anchor negotiations with statute-based brackets before detailed discovery.
Best for
Risk teams
Stress-test per-work exposure when complaint lists multiple registered works.
Best for
Counsel
Compare statutory story against forensic actual-damages models.
Best for
Studios
Pair profit inputs with royalty benchmarks from your deal memo.
Best for
IT legal
Illustrate why unlicensed deployment volume raises statutory work counts.
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Artists
Explain registration timing alongside damages categories.
Two registered works, non-willful statutory framing, $5,000 actual + $3,000 profits →
Statutory band (illustrative)
$1,500 – $60,000
Plus actual + profits path $8,000 in this demo
For statutory damages, the tool applies the familiar per-work dollar brackets in § 504(c): a statutory floor based on $750 per work you list, and a ceiling of $30,000 per work in ordinary cases or $150,000 per work when willful infringement is toggled on. A mid “planning anchor” is a rough internal weighting—not a prediction. When you enable the actual-damages path, your dollar inputs for actual harm and infringer profits sum separately for comparison to statutory strategy discussions.
Courts may require election between statutory and actual damages/ profits, and may reduce awards for innocent infringers or apportion profits to non-infringing features. Those doctrines are not modeled here.
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