A hotel was liable for statutory damages, the other copyright owners’ costs of suit including attorneys’ fees, and was permanently enjoined from infringing copyrights to music compositions by publicly performing the music for hotel patrons. Most significantly, the President/Treasurer of the hotel’s parent company was found to be jointly and severally liable with the hotel for copyright infringement. EMI Mills Music, Inc., et al., v. Empress Hotel, Inc., et al. (D.P.R. No. 03-01940, Sept. 20, 2006).

Plaintiffs EMI Mills Music, Inc., Universal-Polygram International Publishing, Inc., Dreamworks Songs, Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc. and Universal Studios, Inc. are music copyright owners who brought suit alleging that the defendants San Juan Empress Hotel, Empress Hotel, Inc. and Mr. Carl Palermo, President and Treasurer of Empress Hotel, Inc., had infringed their copyrights in four songs through the unauthorized public performance of the songs on defendants’ premises....

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