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> "It also seeks punitive damages and fines." But there is no such thing as punitive damages under German law?

• thesimon 9y ago
  They also claim >Pay Court costs, assessed at 50% of total costs. This is estimated to be at least 50,000 Euros, but is not yet assessed. which seems false. The court set the amount involved in this case to 100k€, which would incurr about 3k€ in court costs and around 5k€ for each sides lawyers. 50k€ of costs would only occur if they would fight this through to the surpreme court. They don't seem to want this though. Regarding the punitive damages: You are correct, the court awarded them damages, no punitive damages, no fines.
• pgeorgi 9y ago
  The pglaf document isn't the most accurate in general (eg. claiming that Germany has "life + 75" terms, while correctly calculating life + 70 right in the next sentence; or discussing that the 56 years rule will end in the US in 2034, since books published after 1978 are subject to life + 70 as well - I guess Gutenberg won't be able to publish a single new book between 2034 and 2048), so I guess the claims made were only about damages (even if pglaf might consider them "punitive") and fines.