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>But copyright as it exists now does not protect or benefit the "little guy" or indie artists.

Yes it does and I'm a plaintiff's attorney that works in copyright and patent for small-time artists and inventors. You could not be more wrong.

I have obtained settlements for my clients from some of the biggest media corporations in the US. You have NO IDEA what you are talking about.

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Can you give specific cases for people to reference?

They settled before going to suit, I didn't say I obtained verdicts, I said I obtained settlements. Verdicts aren't how most copyright infringement works (more evidence that you have no idea what you are talking about, at all).

You do not have to file suit to assert a copyright. You just need the authority to file that suit, in order to have a meaningful threat from which an infringer (especially a large media company) will settle.

If this is too hard for you to believe, I'm not sure what to tell you but to spend more time in the real world, and less on whatever media you are reading to engender these thoughts.

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