I'd just like to say that the statutory damages provision is extremely important to the Writers' Union. There is a great deal of piracy on the Internet now. We hear about music a lot, but it's also happening with books and with articles and so on, so it's very important.
Statutory damage is something that's very easy for a creator to follow up with, because it doesn't cost very much to do, but the statutory damages provision has been weakened quite substantially by some things that I'm sure you don't think about. One of the things is that there is a distinction now between commercial and non-commercial infringers. It's left so that statutory damages are only with respect to non-commercial infringements, but there are huge non-commercial infringements done by big corporations. As well, there are big non-profit organizations that also do infringe copyrights, so that distinction is something we'd really like you to look at again and reconsider.
As well, it seems very unfair to writers if a whole lot of writers have had their works infringed but it's only the first guy who gets to the court and says, “Hey, we want to be able to elect to have statutory damages” who can get the damages. People who come along later against that particular infringer will get nothing, so—