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inlawrev-2544	Shockley, Steven C.	Crossed Signals: Copyright Liability for Resale Carriers of Television Broadcasts	1983	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13413	684	58	Implications of Copyright Liability Imposed on Resale Carriers The most direct result of holding resale carriers of broadcast television signals liable for copyright infringement would be their liability to copyright owners for either actual damages and lost profits, 160 or for statutory damages, which are between $250 and $10,000 161 for each and every infringement occurring within the three- year statute of limitations period.162 Given the number of copyrighted programs retransmitted by resale carriers each day, each week, and each year, the result of such liability could be the total devastation of resale carrier operations. The competitive attitudes that are held between broadcasters and cable systems165 and the experiences with the retrans- mission consent experiment that was conducted between cable systems and copyright owners a decade ago166 indicate that blanket denials of retransmission rights to resale carriers could be expected, thus, caus- ing the cable industry to wither.	cache/inlawrev-2544.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2544.txt