Cox Can’t Escape $1 Billion Copyright Verdict, Can Reduce Award

Cox Communications Inc. can’t overturn a $1 billion verdict against it for failing to prevent music piracy on its network, but it can get that award reduced, a Virginia federal court said.

Although the verdict was sound and the award per pirated work was proper, the court said Tuesday that it would recalculate how many songs were actually pirated.

Record companies including Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Brothers Records Inc. and Universal Music Corp. sued Cox for enabling its subscribers to copy more than 10,000 works over peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent.

The jury found that Cox failed to address the ...