Zazzle’s ‘Recklessness’ Prompts Court to Restore Copyright Award

Zazzle.com must pay an art publishing company $460,800 for copyright infringement, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a jury had enough evidence of the online marketplace behaving recklessly to award that amount.

The Nov. 20 ruling restored the jury’s award to Greg Young Publishing Inc. that a judge had reduced by $109,700, saying there was insufficient evidence that Zazzle Inc. infringed intentionally. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the judge’s decision not to have Zazzle pay the plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees and a trial costs award to Zazzle because its final settlement offer exceeded the jury’s ...