COOGLER, District Judge:
Yellow Pages Group, LLC appeals from a $123,000 judgment against it in favor of Yellow Pages Photos, Inc., following a jury verdict in a copyright infringement trial. Yellow Pages Photos, Inc. cross appeals, arguing that it is entitled to a new trial on damages due to the alleged error of the district court in several of its discovery, evidentiary, and procedural rulings. After careful review of the record and briefs of the parties, and having the benefit of oral argument, we affirm the district court on all issues raised on appeal.
The facts presented at trial are as follows. In the late 1990s, Trent Moore ("Moore"), an amateur photographer and former owner of a yellow pages ad production company, founded Yellow Pages Photos, Inc. ("YPPI"), to create and license stock photographs tailored to the yellow pages industry. YPPI set out to create stock photos that were relevant to the directory industry from a subject matter perspective. By 2004, YPPI owned a library of over 4,000 copyrighted photos that for efficiency were grouped into collections — also referred to throughout as "headings" — that generally corresponded to yellow pages headings, such as "Plumbers," "Roofers," "Attorneys," or "Landscape." In Moore's words,
[Doc. 423 at 66.] Moore also explained that the stock photos were not redundant in that every photo could be used by a publisher: "[T]hey were shot in such a way that each image could be used to its fullest.... What we wanted to do was have ten different photos of this, not one guy ten ways. We need ten guys one way." [Id. at 65-67.]
In March of 2004, Moore met with John Woodall ("Woodall"), the CEO of phone book publisher Ziplocal, LP ("Ziplocal"), then called Phone Directories Company. Woodall found Moore's product interesting because it consisted of a large number of "images of things organized by Yellow Page headings." [Doc. 425 at 40-41, 77.] As Woodall put it, "I had never seen at that point a collection organized the way that we actually did business, which was
The SLPA is a one-page, bullet-pointed document signed on March 15, 2004, by Moore and Woodall that provided, among other things, that for the price of $875 per CD-ROM disk, "[Ziplocal] agrees to purchase all current titles as well as all new relevant headings as they become available, up to the first 200 Headings. YPPI will ship 1-2 headings per month." [Joint Trial Exhibit 2.] The SLPA thus contemplated an initial purchase of a license to use, and delivery of, YPPI's photos that were then available, followed by additional purchases and deliveries of an additional 120 headings over time. The SLPA provided for an unlimited number of "authorized users" of the photos, and although it permitted Ziplocal to use any type of "server or information system [necessary] to facilitate multiple user simultaneous access," it required Ziplocal to protect the photos from "unauthorized distribution to unlicensed users." [Id.] The SLPA, which refers to itself internally as "this agreement," also refers to another agreement called "the license agreement." [Id.] Both Moore and Woodall testified that this reference to "the license agreement" was to the EULA. There was no testimony to the contrary, and no dispute the SLPA was a binding contract between YPPI and Ziplocal.
The EULA is a two-page, unsigned document that contained terms in addition to, and that expanded upon, the terms of the SLPA, including the following, relative to the use and transfer of photos: "[Ziplocal] may not transfer these images to any outside parties or individuals unless authorized by YPPI. All users must be Employees of [Ziplocal]." [Joint Trial Exhibit 20.] The EULA also limited the number of users of the photos to 40, indicated that opening the package containing the photos "indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions set forth," and stated that "if you do not agree with these conditions YPPI does not grant license and you should return the unopened packages within 10 days for a full refund." [Id.]
Moore testified that there were two contracts because, "There's the purchase agreement which details, you know, things like how many CDs or images are going to be purchased and there's a license agreement that details the restrictions and use." [Doc. 424 at 19.] Woodall's testimony was also that both the SLPA and EULA were contracts of YPPI and Ziplocal and that the EULA was simply "the detail of the license agreement behind the [SLPA]." [Doc. 425 at 44.] Notwithstanding persistent cross examination, Woodall repeated over and over that the EULA was an agreement between YPPI and Ziplocal. [Id. at 98-100.] Moore and Woodall also testified that the SLPA and EULA were agreed to contemporaneously. Moore stated that "when I consummated the deal with John Woodall, [the SLPA and EULA] were together." [Doc. 424 at 19-20.] Woodall testified that he saw the SLPA and EULA around the same time. [Doc. 425 at 44.]
At their meeting in March 2004, Moore gave Woodall a hard drive with the first 4,000 photos, or 80 collections, on it. In April 2004, Moore sent the first CD of additional photos to Ziplocal, and the package contained the EULA. From 2004 to 2009, Ziplocal made payments and received in installments more collections of photos, until it had acquired YPPI's entire
Yellow Pages Group, LLC ("YPG") was not a party to either the SLPA or the EULA. YPG and Ziplocal did not start doing business until six years later, in 2010, when YPG sold its phone books to Ziplocal and subcontracted with Ziplocal so that YPG's employees could provide support in producing Ziplocal's phone books. YPG employees assembled and paginated the digital pages to prepare them for printing, modified existing ads by updating phone numbers and addresses, and created new ads, tasks that Ziplocal had previously done in-house. The relationship between Ziplocal and YPG was governed by an Outsourcing Agreement signed in November 2010. The agreement provided that any work performed by YPG for Ziplocal would not infringe third-party intellectual property rights. As part of their agreement, Ziplocal provided YPG with digital copies of its phone books that included photos that had been licensed from YPPI. In updating those books, YPG used some of YPPI's licensed photos. YPPI was never asked to consent to any transfer of its photos by Ziplocal to YPG, or to the use of its photos by YPG. In any event, and as Moore admitted at trial, Ziplocal's outsourcing to YPG resulted in YPPI's photos being used as intended under the SLPA, which was only in Ziplocal publications. [Doc. 424 at 225-26.]
In 2011, YPPI discovered that Ziplocal outsourced its graphics functions to YPG, and that YPG was using YPPI's photos without a license. YPPI sent Ziplocal a cease and desist letter, containing a copy of the EULA, which required all "users" of YPPI's photos to be employees of Ziplocal's. When YPG was notified of the particular ads that YPPI thought were infringing, Ziplocal and YPG removed them from the next edition of the phone books, substituting photos licensed from another company, Getty Images, for YPPI's photos. Moore testified that it took many months to identify which of his photos he thought YPG and Ziplocal were infringing because he had to compare them to his master set, and that he was working on identifying infringing photos right up until the time of trial. On April 9, 2012, YPPI commenced this action. Ziplocal and YPG were still using YPPI's photos to build ads after the commencement of the lawsuit.
YPPI filed a two-count complaint, for breach of contract against Ziplocal, and for infringement against both Ziplocal and YPG under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. After the claims survived cross motions for summary judgment, the case was tried to a jury from March 17 to 27, 2014. YPPI contended at trial that its contract with Ziplocal was comprised of two documents, the SLPA and the EULA, that both the SLPA and the EULA prohibited transfer of YPPI's photos and restricted use of the photos to employees of Ziplocal, and that the terms of both the SLPA and EULA were breached when Ziplocal transferred photos to, and permitted use of the photos by, YPG. On the other hand, Ziplocal and YPG claimed that only the SLPA was the operative contract between the parties,
During trial, both parties requested that, before the case was submitted to the jury, the district court decide, based on the evidence introduced at trial, how many individual photos constituted a "work" as that term is defined in the Copyright Act for purposes of computing statutory damages. The court ruled that each of YPPI's 178 collections of photos relating to phone directory subject matter such as "Appliances," "Attorneys," etc., was a work for statutory damages purposes, rejecting YPPI's contention that each of its 10,411 individual photos was a work. The court reached this conclusion by considering how YPPI arranged the photos for marketing purposes, noting that Moore had testified that the purpose for grouping his photo collections by subject matter heading, rather than marketing individual photos, was for customer appeal and efficiency. The court also considered how YPPI registered the photos with the Copyright Office, under the 178 titles, grouping various title collections together on 44 different registration applications, how it delivered the photos to Ziplocal, in that the SLPA provided that YPPI would sell "up to the first 200 Headings" initially and would subsequently "ship 1-2 headings per month," and how it described the photos in its complaints as collections, pointing out that YPPI did not take the position until it filed its Third Amended Complaint that each photograph constituted a single work.
At the close of the evidence, the court used YPPI's proposed jury instructions and verdict form in submitting the case to the jury. In response to questions on the verdict form, the jury first found by a preponderance of the evidence that "the EULA is a valid and binding contract between YPPI and Ziplocal." It then found that Ziplocal breached "its contract" with YPPI. The jury then filled in a blank to award YPPI zero dollars on its breach of contract claim. In response to further questions, the jury found both Ziplocal and YPG to be willful infringers of YPPI's copyrights and that 123 of YPPI's 178 works had been infringed. The jury then awarded one dollar in actual damages and zero dollars in statutory damages against Ziplocal, and zero dollars in actual damages and $123,000 in statutory damages against YPG. Finally, the jury found that Ziplocal was a contributory infringer to YPG's copyright infringement and awarded $100,000 in actual damages and zero dollars in statutory damages to YPPI on the contributory infringement claim.
After trial, Ziplocal and YPG renewed their motions for a judgment as a matter of law, which were denied by the district court. YPPI made its election between actual and statutory damages, as it was authorized to do under the Copyright Act, electing to recover 1) $100,001.00 in actual damages from Ziplocal and 2) $123,000.00 in statutory damages from YPG. YPPI filed a motion for attorneys' fees and non-taxable and taxable costs, seeking over $2 million. The district court denied YPPI's motion without prejudice, pending the outcome of this appeal. YPG timely appealed the district court's denial of its post-trial renewed motion for a judgment as a matter of law to this Court. Ziplocal also appealed, but its appeal was dismissed for want of prosecution. YPPI cross appealed several of the district court's discovery, evidentiary, and procedural rulings. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
YPG argues that it is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law for several reasons,
Before addressing YPG's arguments, we must take up YPPI's contention that YPG lacks standing to make several of those arguments in this appeal. See Doe No. 1 v. United States, 749 F.3d 999, 1003 (11th Cir.2014) ("We review de novo whether we have jurisdiction ... before addressing the merits.").
In addressing YPPI's claims, the jury had to determine what documents constituted the contract between YPPI and Ziplocal (i.e., just the SLPA, or the EULA as well), what the terms of the contract were, and whether Ziplocal breached its contract with YPPI, before it could address whether YPG and Ziplocal infringed YPPI's copyrights. Because Ziplocal has no pending appeal, YPPI asserts that YPG, not a party to the contract between Ziplocal and YPPI, and nowhere arguing that it is an intended third-party beneficiary of the contract, lacks "standing" to assert arguments relating to the validity and interpretation of the SLPA or the EULA. YPPI's contention is based primarily on this Court's previous holding that if a plaintiff is not an intended third-party beneficiary of a contract, the plaintiff lacks standing to sue under the contract and that, consequently, the court lacks jurisdiction. See Interface Kanner, LLC v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 704 F.3d 927, 932-33 (11th Cir.2013). However, as explained below, YPPI's jurisdictional argument is misplaced, as YPG without question possesses standing to litigate this appeal.
"[T]he core component of standing is an essential and unchanging part of the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III." Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 2136, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992). Accordingly, standing "is the threshold question in every federal case, determining the power of the court to entertain the suit." Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 498, 95 S.Ct. 2197, 2205, 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975). "In essence the question of standing is whether the litigant is entitled to have the court decide the merits of the dispute or of particular issues." Id. A litigant is so entitled only when he has "such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends." Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 204, 82 S.Ct. 691, 703, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962). A plaintiff must meet three requirements in order to establish Article III standing: injury in fact — "a harm that is both concrete and actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical," causation — "a fairly traceable connection between
YPPI's assertion that YPG lacks "standing" is problematic because YPG advances its interpretation of the SLPA and the EULA not as a plaintiff in pursuit of a contract claim — indeed, YPG has no breach of contract claim — but in its defense against the copyright infringement claim levied against it by YPPI. To be sure, the requirement that a party establish its standing to litigate applies not only to plaintiffs but also defendants. See Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43, 64, 117 S.Ct. 1055, 1067, 137 L.Ed.2d 170 (1997) (stating that "[s]tanding to sue or defend is an aspect of the case-or-controversy requirement" and "[s]tanding to defend on appeal in the place of an original defendant, no less than standing to sue, demands that the litigant possess a direct stake in the outcome") (emphasis added and internal quotation marks omitted). Nonetheless, the issue of standing in civil litigation normally arises in the context of the plaintiff's standing to sue, and not in the defendant's standing to defend against suit. See 13A Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 3531 (3d ed.2014) (noting that the party focused upon is "almost invariably the plaintiff" and that "ordinarily the role of defendants is considered only in determining whether they have caused the injury complained of and whether an order directed to them will redress that injury"). For example, the cases relied upon by YPPI for determining whether YPG has established standing in this case are cases in which the plaintiff's standing to sue on a contract was challenged, not the defendant's standing to assert a defense. See, e.g., Interface Kanner, 704 F.3d at 932. The concept of the defendant's standing does not typically arise because the requirement that a defendant possess standing is almost always satisfied by the plaintiff's claim for relief against that defendant. After all, any defendant against whom relief is sought will generally have standing to defend due to its exposure to an adverse judgment, the threat of which is imminent.
In the instant case, the justiciable controversy before the Court is whether YPG infringed YPPI's copyrights in its photos. YPG meets the requirement that it possess standing to litigate this controversy, as it has a concrete and actual interest in avoiding a judgment being entered against it on YPPI's copyright infringement claim, an interest that will be directly affected by the outcome of this appeal. YPG unquestionably has standing.
Moreover, whether YPG can assert a defense to YPPI's copyright infringement claim based on a particular interpretation of the SLPA and the EULA is simply not an issue of "standing" in the same sense
Id. at 604. Similarly here, having already determined that YPG has standing, there is no jurisdictional bar to YPG asking this Court to interpret YPPI's licensing agreement with Ziplocal. That agreement precipitated the copyright infringement claim YPPI now asserts against YPG, and whether YPG will be absolved of liability or made to pay the damages award depends in part on this Court's interpretation of the agreement at issue. Judge Clement's conclusion in Excel Willowbrook that the Landlords did not have a standing problem is exceptionally persuasive given our facts, considering that the non-third party beneficiaries asking the court to interpret the contract in Excel Willowbrook actually initiated the litigation, while here, YPG offers its interpretation of the SLPA and the EULA as a defendant — YPG is only in court because YPPI put it there. Cf. Culhane v. Aurora Loan Serv. of Neb., 708 F.3d 282, 290 (1st Cir.2013) (while noting that "[i]t is true that a nonparty who does not benefit from a contract generally lacks standing to assert rights under that contract," making clear that a debtor "could challenge an assignment as a defense upon being haled into court by the assignee seeking to collect on her debt") (citing 6A C.J.S. Assignments § 132 (2012)). Simply put, the rule from Interface Kanner preventing a non-party from
Finding no standing problem, we pause to satisfy ourselves that YPG can nonetheless assert its defense even though it was not in privity of contract with YPPI.
We review the denial of a motion for a judgment as a matter of law de novo and apply the same standards as the district court. Skye v. Maersk Line, Ltd. Corp., 751 F.3d 1262, 1265 (11th Cir.2014). We will reverse the district court's denial of a motion for a judgment as a matter of law "only if the facts and inferences point overwhelmingly in favor of one party, such that reasonable people could not arrive at a contrary verdict." Id. (quotation marks omitted). "We will not second-guess the jury or substitute our judgment for its judgment if its verdict is supported by sufficient evidence." Id. (quotation marks omitted).
YPG's first contention is that the SLPA permitted Ziplocal to outsource the use of YPPI's photos to contractors like YPG, irrespective of the EULA's prohibition on transferring photos to non-employees, and as such, YPG's assistance to Ziplocal in publishing its phone books by using YPPI's photos was not copyright infringement. However, the jury's verdict to the contrary is supported by sufficient evidence.
Further, the district court charged the jury that in deciding the meaning of the disputed terms of the contract, it should consider how the parties acted before and after the contract was created. Terms in the SLPA such as "authorized users," "unauthorized distribution," "unlicensed users," and "the license agreement" were not defined in the SLPA, and the jury was instructed that there was a dispute between YPPI and Ziplocal as to the meaning of these terms. The jury heard that YPPI's position was that these particular terms in the SLPA should be construed consistently with the EULA to mean that "authorized users" in the SLPA means "employees of [Ziplocal]," "unlicensed users" in the SLPA means outside parties or individuals who are not employees of Ziplocal, "unauthorized distribution" means transfer of the photos without authorization by YPPI, and the term "the license agreement" in the SLPA refers to the EULA. If these constructions were adopted by the jury, the SLPA could, on its face, have been found to prohibit the use of YPPI's photos by non-employees, just as the EULA does, which is even referenced in the SLPA as "the license agreement." See Quix Snaxx, 710 So.2d at 153 ("Where a writing expressly refers to and sufficiently describes another document, the other document, or so much of it as is referred to, is to be interpreted as part of the writing."). Sufficient evidence was presented to support these constructions as argued by YPPI, such as the actions of Ziplocal over the years in continuing to accept, pay for, and use each collection of photos sent by YPPI, each time in packaging containing a EULA. In sum, the evidence supports the jury's conclusion that Ziplocal breached its contract — consisting of the SLPA and EULA together — with YPPI by transferring YPPI's photos to YPG.
Nor do we find merit in any of YPG's contentions that it was entitled to a judgment as a matter of law because the EULA was an invalid contract. YPG first argues that there was no benefit provided to Ziplocal by the EULA that it did not already get through the SLPA, and the EULA actually contained more restrictive provisions than the SLPA. To the contrary, there was a legally sufficient evidentiary basis for the jury to conclude that there was consideration for the EULA. As noted in the previous section, a reasonable jury could have construed the SLPA and EULA together as one contract, a finding that was supported by the evidence at trial. Because there was consideration for the SLPA, in the form of Ziplocal paying YPPI for the photos and promising to abide by the contract restrictions, there was consideration for the EULA as well, which was even referenced in the SLPA as "the license agreement." Indeed, as YPPI delivered more photos for years after the initial agreement between Moore and Woodall, each time accompanied by the EULA, Ziplocal continued to pay. YPG has not demonstrated a lack of evidence of consideration such that the judgment in favor of YPPI would be brought into question.
YPG next contends that the EULA is invalid because it was not agreed to by anyone with authority to bind Ziplocal for shipments of photos subsequent to the first delivery of the initial hard drive to Woodall in April 2004. Again, there was
YPG also asserts that there was no evidence presented that the EULA governed the first 4,000 photos initially delivered on March 15, 2004, by YPPI to Ziplocal. YPG argues that the EULA could not have applied to this initial delivery of photos, because the photos were on a hard drive as opposed to a CD, and the EULA was not affixed to the hard drive, as it was to the subsequent CD shipments. YPG's argument again disregards the testimony at trial that led the jury to construe the SLPA together with the EULA, rather than each in isolation, and YPG does not dispute that the SLPA applies to all 10,411 photos. Moreover, Moore testified that the EULA governed all 10,411 of the photos at issue in this lawsuit. Moore also testified that he and Woodall agreed to the terms of the EULA when he delivered the hard drive containing the initial set of photos with the EULA, on March 15, 2004. Woodall's testimony confirmed this agreement, in that he stated that the EULA was the "license agreement behind the [SLPA]," that the EULA was an agreement of YPPI and Ziplocal, and that he saw the two agreements at around the same time. [Doc. 425 at 44, 98-100.] YPG's argument that the EULA could not have applied to the initial delivery of photos because there was no package with an attached EULA containing a CD for Ziplocal to open, a specific mode of acceptance set forth in the EULA, disregards the intent of YPPI and Ziplocal to reach an agreement on March 15, 2004, and for it to apply to the initial 4,000 photos. Florida
YPG's final contention is that it is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law because there was no evidence presented at trial supporting the jury's finding that it willfully infringed YPPI's copyrights. The Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to recover actual damages suffered, as well as any profits made by the defendant, that are the result of the infringement. 17 U.S.C. § 504(b). However, under § 504(c)(1) of the Act, an owner may elect to recover statutory damages in lieu of any other form of monetary relief. The Copyright Act's statutory damages provision is designed to discourage wrongful conduct. F.W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, Inc., 344 U.S. 228, 233, 73 S.Ct. 222, 225, 97 L.Ed. 276 (1952). The range of statutory damages is between $750 and $30,000 for each infringed work, 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1), but the Act also allows "the court in its discretion [to] increase ... award[s] of statutory damages" in cases involving willful infringement to $150,000 per work, id. § 504(c)(2). This Court has stated that willfulness under the Copyright Act "means that the defendant `knows his actions constitute an infringement; the actions need not have been malicious.'" Cable/Home Commc'n Corp. v. Network Prods., Inc., 902 F.2d 829, 851 (11th Cir.1990) (quoting Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Xanthas, Inc., 855 F.2d 233, 236 (5th Cir.1988)). Numerous other circuits have held that a finding of willfulness under the Copyright Act is also appropriate where a defendant recklessly disregarded the possibility that it was infringing a copyright. See Graper v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co., 756 F.3d 388, 394-95 & n. 7 (5th Cir.2014); N.A.S. Import, Corp. v. Chenson Enters., Inc., 968 F.2d 250, 252 (2d Cir.1992) (holding that a finding of "reckless disregard of the copyright holder's rights (rather than actual knowledge of infringement) suffices to warrant [an] award of enhanced damages"); Video Views, Inc. v. Studio 21, Ltd., 925 F.2d 1010, 1020-21 (7th Cir.1991) (holding that the term "willful" encompasses the "reckless disregard of the copyright owner's right"); RCA/Ariola Intern., Inc. v. Thomas & Grayston Co., 845 F.2d 773, 779 (8th Cir.1988) (holding that "willfully" under the Copyright Act encompasses reckless disregard). As opined by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,
Graper, 756 F.3d at 394-95 (footnote omitted). We agree with the Fifth Circuit and others that willful copyright infringement under § 504(c)(2) encompasses reckless disregard of the possibility that one's actions are infringing a copyright.
There were sufficient facts at trial to support a finding of willful infringement based on YPG's reckless disregard for the possibility that it might be infringing on YPPI's copyrights. Michelle Meloy, a senior manager in YPG's directory services department and former Creative Services Manager, admitted that YPG never received authorization to use YPPI's photos. Notwithstanding this lack of authorization, Ms. Meloy testified that YPG continued building new advertisements with YPPI's photos into 2013, after this litigation began. She also testified that YPG transferred YPPI's photos to third parties, such as when YPG aided a third-party company in creating and publishing video ads for one of Ziplocal's customers, to be used in one of Ziplocal's publications. She stated that when YPG helped create these ads, it did not follow any specific measures to regulate what photos it was taking from Ziplocal's customer folders, nor did it provide third party companies with any parameters regarding how the photos could be used. The evidence showed that YPG only began swapping out YPPI's photos from ads after it was caught using the photos without a license. YPG's Director of Legal Affairs, Treena Cooper, also testified that YPG did not conduct any due diligence to determine whether it had a right to use the photos received from Ziplocal, and in fact YPG had "no idea" who owned the photos. [Doc. 426 at 151.] Ms. Cooper testified that "it wasn't a concern" of YPG what the source of the images it was receiving from Ziplocal was. [Id.] YPG's Vice President of Business Solutions, Gregory Shearer, also testified that YPG had no knowledge of any license agreement between Ziplocal and YPPI "because frankly it wouldn't have made any difference to us." [Id. at 175-81.] YPG argues that willfulness is negated because outsourcing is common in the industry, so YPG had no reason to know that performing outsourcing work using photos received from Ziplocal would infringe the copyrights of others. YPG further argues that there was no evidence YPG knew of the license agreement between Ziplocal and YPPI, and YPG's outsourcing agreement with Ziplocal stated that the work performed would not infringe on any copyrights. However, according to YPG's own witnesses, YPG was not only fully aware that permission is required to use copyrighted photos, but it would not have made any difference whether YPG knew about Ziplocal's license from YPPI or not, because YPG was not at all concerned about the source of the photos it was receiving from Ziplocal. This evidence is more than sufficient to support a finding of willful copyright infringement under the Copyright Act.
In sum, we reject YPG's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict that it infringed YPPI's copyrights. Accordingly, we affirm the district court's denial of YPG's renewed motion for a judgment as a matter of law.
We turn now to YPPI's cross appeal, in which it contends that it is entitled to a
Letters rogatory are the means by which a court in one country requests a court of another country to assist in the production of evidence located in the foreign country. See United States v. El-Mezain, 664 F.3d 467, 516-17 (5th Cir.2011). Federal courts have authority to issue letters rogatory in civil and criminal cases. See United States v. Staples, 256 F.2d 290, 292 (9th Cir.1958); United States v. Steele, 685 F.2d 793, 809 (3d Cir.1982). For example, Rule 28 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows for depositions to be taken in foreign countries. Fed. R.Civ.P. 28(b) provides that a letter of request ("whether or not captioned a `letter rogatory'") may be issued: 1) "on appropriate terms after an application and notice of it;" and 2) "without a showing that taking the deposition in another manner is impracticable or inconvenient." Fed.R.Civ.P. 28(b)(1)-(2).
The Supreme Court has described the letters rogatory process as "complicated, dilatory, and expensive." Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for the S. Dist. of Iowa, 482 U.S. 522, 531, 107 S.Ct. 2542, 2549, 96 L.Ed.2d 461 (1987). The decision whether to issue letters rogatory lies within the discretion of the district court and is reviewed for an abuse of that discretion. El-Mazain, 664 F.3d at 517 (citing United States v. Liner, 435 F.3d 920, 924 (8th Cir.2006)). Several other circuits have held that there must be "good reason" to deny the request for the issuance of letters rogatory, at least when the request is made pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 28(b). See Complaint of Bankers Trust Co., 752 F.2d 874, 890 (3rd Cir.1984) ("Although we do not dispute that it may be proper to refuse the issuance of a commission or letters rogatory, there are cases in which courts have indicated that there must be some `good reason' justifying the denial of this particular type of judicial assistance.") (citing Zassenhaus v. Evening Star Newspaper Co., 404 F.2d 1361, 1364 (D.C.Cir.1968)).
Over a year into discovery, YPPI asked the district court to issue letters rogatory to the appropriate Canadian authorities to depose Yellow Pages Group Corp. (hereinafter "YPG Canada"), a Canadian affiliate of YPG that also publishes phone directories. YPPI's motion, filed pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 28(b), sought to depose a YPG Canada designee on all of the sources of its photos used in all of its phone directories, on all of the company's salespeople and graphic artists, and on all third parties used by the company for advertisement production. It also sought a corporate designee on the relationship of YPG Canada with three other non-parties: Canpages, Inc., a company that YPG Canada had acquired in 2010 and that was also a licensee of YPPI's, Volt Information Sciences, Inc., also a licensee of YPPI's, and YPG Directories, LLC. The associated document requests sought all agreements between YPG Canada and other third parties such as Canpages, and copies of all Canpages phone directories, regardless of whether they contained YPPI's photos. YPPI sought this nearly unfettered access to YPG Canada because it argued that YPG builds ads for not only Ziplocal but also YPG Canada, and YPPI's photos were showing up in YPG Canada's publications, such as in videos located on YPG Canada's website. Since YPG Canada was not one of YPPI's licensees, YPPI believed that YPG was illegally transferring YPPI's photos to YPG Canada for use in its ads. YPG and Ziplocal opposed the request, arguing that it was overbroad and irrelevant because it amounted to YPPI's attempt to discover infringement activities on the part of YPG Canada, who was not sued or otherwise mentioned in any of YPPI's complaints. The district court refused to issue letters rogatory to the Canadian authorities, finding that any information that YPPI needed could be gathered within the confines of the United States.
YPPI now argues that the district court's denial of its motion to issue letters rogatory to depose YPG Canada prejudiced it to the extent that a new trial on damages is warranted. YPPI believes that had it been able to depose YPG Canada, it would have discovered that YPG or Ziplocal had transferred some of YPPI's photos to YPG Canada for its use, and if it had been able to present evidence to the jury that YPG or Ziplocal had allowed the use of YPPI's photos by another party, that it would have undermined YPG and Ziplocal's defense at trial that there was no "real" damage in this case because Ziplocal merely transferred YPPI's photos to YPG for use in Ziplocal's phone directories and for no other purpose.
The issuance of letters rogatory is a discovery issue, and a party is not entitled to a new trial for an alleged discovery violation unless it shows that the denial of access to evidence was prejudicial to its substantial rights. El-Mezain, 664 F.3d at 517. This requires a showing of "a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different." Id. (quotation marks omitted). "[A] reasonable probability is shown where the nondisclosure could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different
YPPI's second argument on cross appeal is that the district court should have allowed it to present at trial Moore's testimony that photos appearing on YPG Canada's website could be from YPG. We review a district court's evidentiary rulings for an abuse of discretion. Burchfield v. CSX Transp. Inc., 636 F.3d 1330, 1333 (11th Cir.2011). We will only overturn an evidentiary ruling if the moving party establishes a substantial prejudicial effect. Id. A prejudicial effect is demonstrated when the moving party shows that the error "probably had a substantial influence on the jury's verdict." Id. (quotation marks omitted).
Prior to trial, YPG asked the district court to preclude YPPI from introducing any evidence at trial of the use of YPPI's photos by YPG Canada. YPPI had listed several print and online video ads that were published by YPG Canada on its exhibit list. YPG pointed out that Ms. Meloy, its corporate designee, had denied at deposition that any of the ads or videos were prepared by YPG or that YPG Canada obtained YPPI's photos from YPG, and that YPPI had no other evidence that YPG Canada obtained any of its photos from YPG. During trial, the court allowed YPPI to make a proffer regarding the evidence it sought to admit. During the proffer, Moore identified a series of ads published by YPG Canada that contained YPPI's photos. Moore testified that it was his belief that the YPPI photos appearing on YPG Canada's website could have been transferred to YPG Canada from YPG. However, he admitted that he had no direct knowledge of YPG's transfer of photos to outside parties. He also admitted that the photos could have come from other sources, such as Canpages, a company acquired by YPG Canada that had also licensed photos from YPPI. The district court excluded Moore's testimony, stating that it was too speculative to be considered by the jury.
YPPI now argues that it was prejudiced by the district court's exclusion of this evidence because a centerpiece of YPG and Ziplocal's defense was the lack of evidence that YPPI's photos were used for anything other than Ziplocal products. YPPI believes
The district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding the evidence. Moore's testimony was pure speculation, and thus too attenuated to be relevant. See R.M.R. ex rel. P.A.L. v. Muscogee Cty. Sch. Dist., 165 F.3d 812, 817 n. 9 (11th Cir.1999) ("Abuse of discretion is the proper standard when reviewing a district court's decision to exclude evidence as irrelevant under Federal Rule of Evidence 401."). Despite conducting discovery for two years, YPPI uncovered no evidence that YPG transferred YPPI's photos to YPG Canada. To the contrary, Ms. Meloy's testimony was that YPG had not made any such transfers. As such, the jury would have had to reach the opposite conclusion based solely on Moore's conjecture. Moore's speculation had no probative value and as such would have been substantially outweighed by the unfair prejudicial impact to YPG. See Fed. R.Evid. 403 (even relevant evidence may be excluded "if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, wasting time, or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence"). Further, YPG Canada was not a party in the action. In YPG Canada's absence, the jury could easily have confused YPG with YPG Canada, and tagged YPG with alleged extraterritorial infringement by YPG Canada. See United States v. Dohan, 508 F.3d 989, 993 (11th Cir.2007) (stating that "[d]istrict courts are well within their discretion to exclude even relevant evidence" for the reasons enumerated in Fed.R.Evid. 403).
YPPI's third argument is that the district court erred in ruling that each of its 178 collections of photos organized by heading name, rather than each of its 10,411 individual photos, was a "work" for the purpose of computing statutory damages under § 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act. Section 504(c)(1) allows for statutory damages based on each "work" infringed. See 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1) (providing that "the copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work"). That section then immediately states that "all the parts of a compilation ... constitute one work." Id. § 504(c)(1). The Copyright Act defines a "compilation" as "a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship." Id. § 101. The term "compilation" includes "collective works," which are defined as works "such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole." Id. By taking the position that its 10,411 individual photos are each separate works, YPPI presumably seeks to raise the statutory damages award in this case from $123,000 to a minimum of $1.5 million and a potential maximum of $300 million. See id. § 504(c)(1)-(2) (providing for a range of statutory damages between $750 and $30,000 for each infringed work and authorizing a court to increase the award of statutory damages to a maximum of $150,000 per infringed work in cases of willful infringement).
In deciding that each of YPPI's 178 collections was the relevant work, the district court found that each collection was a "compilation" of photos under 17 U.S.C. §§ 504(c)(1) and 101. The factual record supports that conclusion. First, Moore's own testimony supports the collective nature and purpose of YPPI's photos organized by subject matter heading. Moore testified that the entire purpose of grouping his photo collections by subject matter — rather than marketing individual photos — was customer appeal and efficiency. He stated that YPPI's customers were publishers of phone directories, and their artists liked being able to search for photos to include in ads by specific subject matter. Indeed, to make his photos relevant and marketable, Moore spent "a lot of years" working with customers "to determine what headings generate revenue and what headings generate usage." [Doc. 423 at 67-68.] Once Moore selected a heading, he would develop the photo collections around it. Using a "Food" heading for an example, Moore testified that, once the heading was selected, the next step was to have the photographer produce the associated photo collection. [Id. at 68.] In other words, the heading drove the collection of the photos, not the other way around. In every sense, then, each of Moore's 178 headings is compilation as defined in the Act because each is a collection of photos that Moore and YPPI "selected, coordinated, or arranged" in a way that results in "an original work of authorship." See 17 U.S.C. § 101.
The manner in which Moore registered his photos with the Copyright Office — as collections rather than as individual photos — also supports the conclusion that the 178 headings, and not the 10,411 individual photos, are the "works" in this case. Although the manner of copyright registration is not dispositive of the works issue, this Court has previously considered it to be at least a relevant factor. See MCA Television Ltd. v. Feltner, 89 F.3d 766, 769 (11th Cir.1996). As Moore put it, customers "bought collections. And I registered my images the same way.... you get images. You register them in a group. And so they wanted the relevance of having multiple images." [Doc. 424 at 265-66.] Moore registered each of his 178 photo collections with the Copyright Office under their heading titles, grouping various title collections together on 44 registration applications. As noted on the registrations, each collection of photos was taken by the same photographer, shared the same subject matter, and was published on the same date. For example, one such copyright registration lists 50 photos for "Golf"-related ads, all taken by "Trent Moore," and all published together on "1-Mar-2001." Another lists 66 photos for "Auto Repair and Crashes"-related ads, all taken by "Richard Lawless," and all published together on "02/03/2009." The photos in each group share a title, e.g., "Golf" or "Auto Repair and Crashes 3." Where the registration form called for a "Title of This Work," YPPI listed the heading
Not only did Moore create, market, and register his photos as collections organized by subject matter heading, he almost exclusively distributed them as collections to his customers, on hard drives, CDs or DVDs, or through a web-portal, always organized by heading so that they were searchable "by key word, category, or collection name." [Doc. 423 at 76-78.] Further, YPPI's SLPA with Ziplocal provided that YPPI "will ship 1-2 headings per month" and contemplated that Ziplocal would "purchase all current titles as well as all new relevant headings as they become available, up to the first 200 headings." [Joint Trial Exhibit 2.]
Finally, we find telling that YPPI's own complaints described each of the 178 collections as a "Work[]." Each complaint alleged that YPPI "created and produced a series of photographic images as follows," which was followed by a list of each collection of photos by heading name, and then alleged that each "series of images is collectively referred to in this Complaint as the `Works.'" [See Complaint, doc. 1 at ¶ 17; First Amended Complaint, doc. 39-1 at ¶ 17; Second Amended Complaint, doc. 56 at ¶ 18; Third Amended Complaint, doc. 248 at ¶ 15.] Because YPPI chose to create, market, deliver, register, and describe the photos as collections, not as individual photos, this Court is convinced that infringement of each collection should result in only one statutory damage award.
We are not persuaded, as YPPI argues, that this Court's previous opinion in MCA Television Ltd. v. Feltner, supra, should change our conclusion. In Feltner, this Court agreed with other circuits that have held that each episode of a syndicated television series was a separate work and not part of a compilation because each had "independent economic value and is, in itself, viable." 89 F.3d at 769 (citing Gamma, 11 F.3d at 1116; Robert Stigwood Grp., Ltd. v. O'Reilly, 530 F.2d 1096, 1105 (2d Cir.1976); Walt Disney Co. v. Powell, 897 F.2d 565, 569 (D.C.Cir.1990)). In support, the Court noted that regardless of "the decision of a distributor of television programs to sell television series as a block, rather than as individual shows," each episode was "produced independently from the other episodes," was "aired independently from preceding and subsequent episodes," and was "individually copyrighted" by the owner. Id. The Court rejected the argument that the episodes were part of an anthology, and thus the entire series was one collective work subject to only one award, because each episode had an individual plot, and it was not necessary to view the episodes in chronological order. Id. at 769-70. In reaching that conclusion, the Court relied upon Twin Peaks Productions, Inc. v. Publications, International, Ltd., 996 F.2d 1366, 1381 (2d Cir.1993), where the Second Circuit had reached the
Although this Court held that the particular television episodes in Feltner were separate works because they could each "live their own copyright life," 89 F.3d at 769, we certainly do not read the Feltner decision as foreclosing the application of 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1)'s directive that "all parts of a compilation ... constitute one work" for all cases. Instead, this Court in Feltner evaluated real world conditions related to how the episodes were created, produced, aired, and registered with the Copyright Office, to find that each episode had an economic value independent from the other episodes, and thus were not part of a compilation or collective work. 89 F.3d at 769. An application of the same factors considered in Feltner to YPPI's photos supports our conclusion that each of YPPI's 10,411 individual photos does not have independent economic value for statutory damages purposes. As described more fully above, Moore created his photos for the sole purpose of being organized into collections based on the subject matter of the photos, e.g., "Golf," "Roofing," "Plumbers," and he marketed them as such for easy searchability by phone book publishing customers. In other words, the photos' usefulness and economic value is derived from their collective nature, not their individuality. The Feltner court also considered that the television episodes were registered individually, unlike here, where they were registered as collections under their heading name, and grouped together on 44 registration applications. YPPI argues that because group registration is permitted under regulations promulgated by the Copyright Office, see 37 C.F.R. § 202.3, the fact that Moore registered his photos in groups should not indicate that the photos are a compilation under
We act consistently with Feltner in finding that, under the independent economic value test, Moore's 10,411 individual photos equate to 178 compilations and 178 works under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1). We note that numerous district courts have applied the independent economic value test to find that groups of photos should be collectively treated as compilations under § 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act and thus a single work for statutory damages purposes. See Greenberg v. Nat'l Geographic Soc'y, No. 97-3924-CIV, 2003 WL 25841579, at *3, *5-6 (S.D.Fla. Feb. 18, 2003) (applying the independent economic value test to the plaintiff's 64 photos to find that they only represented four works for statutory damages purposes because they had been compiled into four National Geographic articles and registered by the plaintiff in the Copyright Office as belonging to those four "collective works"); Tang v. Putruss, 521 F.Supp.2d 600, 609-10 (E.D.Mich.2007) (although noting that the Sixth Circuit had not indicated what analysis courts are to use in determining whether a group of photos constitutes a single work, applying the independent economic value test to find that a series of photos of models wearing a line of dresses taken at a single session, by a single photographer, for a single purpose, i.e. to advertise the clothing line, was a single work); Coogan v. Avnet, Inc., No. CV040621PHXSRB, 2005 WL 2789311, at *5-6 (D.Ariz. Oct. 24, 2005) (applying the independent economic value test to find that a series of photos taken of a company's CEO at a single session, by a single photographer, for a single purpose, and subject to a single license agreement, was one work). One exception, upon which YPPI heavily relies, is Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Sanfilippo, No. 97-0670-IEG (LSP), 1998 WL 207856 (S.D.Cal. Mar. 24, 1998), where the district court applied the independent economic value test to find that each of 7,475 separate copyrighted photos at issue were separate works for statutory damages purposes. Id. at *5. There, the infringer copied thousands of copyrighted photos from Playboy, which he offered for sale via a website. Id. at *1. When Playboy sought statutory damages for each of the photos copied, the infringer attempted to argue that since the photos were collectively displayed in only 27 of Playboy's copyrighted magazines, each magazine constituted a singular violation, but not each photo. Id. at *5. In awarding statutory damages for each of the 7,475 photos, the court found:
Id.
Unlike the photos in Playboy that were copyrighted and marketed individually, Moore's photos were always registered and marketed as collections. YPPI's collections of photos are more like the series of photos in Greenberg, Tang, and Coogan, which were taken of one subject, by one photographer, at a single session. Indeed, YPPI's retrospective attempts to highlight the singular aspects of its photos are not persuasive. It argues that the photos were taken by four different photographers: Trent Moore, Richard Lawless, Richard Suggs, and Heather Rossick, and consist of multiple objects and models in multiple settings. However, while YPPI used four different photographers to create its entire library over the years, for each individual collection organized by subject matter that is at issue in this lawsuit, only a single photographer was ever used, as confirmed in YPPI's copyright registrations. Further, Moore testified that he took most of the photos and personally edited each one. Additionally, while, for instance, all of the 50 to 100 photos categorized and sold under the heading of "Roofers" may depict different models and settings, each photo obviously is relevant to inclusion in ads about the roofing industry and was marketed and sold for that purpose.
YPPI also points to some instances where it sold its photos individually, but the record reveals that such instances are outliers.
We are also not persuaded by YPPI's insistence that the photos compiled under a heading only become useful when a customer selects a particular photo to build an ad. To the contrary, Moore testified about the collective usefulness of the headings: they allowed the customer to search by subject matter relevant to their business, and the multiple photos under that heading gave the customer flexibility to choose between different "looks" for the same subject. According to Moore, the very idea at the heart of his business was to provide customers with an integrated collection of photos, whose chief value came from being "heading specific" and sharing the "same vernacular." [Doc. 423 at 66.] Neither the fact that YPPI would sometimes offer per-photo prices rather than per-collection prices to customers,
Finally, YPPI's argument that this Court should disregard the way it described its 178 collections of photos in its complaints is not well taken. YPPI's description of its 178 collections as "Works" is an admission by a party, akin to witness testimony or any other evidence the district court could have used in determining the works issue.
In sum, because YPPI created, marketed, published, registered, and repeatedly described its photos as 178 collections under 178 headings organized by subject matter, we affirm the district court's decision to treat each collection as a compilation, subject to only one award of statutory damages.
YPPI's final argument on cross appeal does not involve YPG. YPPI argues that the district court erred when it refused to address an apparent inconsistency between the jury awarding $123,000 in statutory damages against YPG and nothing in statutory damages against Ziplocal. YPPI argues that the jury's statutory damages award against Ziplocal of zero dollars should be at least $750 for each work it found Ziplocal directly infringed, which would total $92,250 for 123 infringed works.
Despite 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1)'s instruction that statutory damages must be awarded "in a sum of not less than $750" for each work infringed, the jury awarded zero dollars in statutory damages for Ziplocal's willful direct infringement of 123 of YPPI's copyrighted works. The jury awarded YPPI only one dollar in actual damages against Ziplocal on the direct infringement claim. Clearly, YPPI was not happy with having to choose between nothing on one hand and one dollar on the other hand, so it requested that the district court address the jury's inconsistent statutory awards. Although YPPI is correct that a court may in appropriate instances correct a jury's damages verdict when it falls below the minimum amount required by law, see U.S. E.E.O.C. v. Massey Yardley Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., 117 F.3d 1244, 1252-53 (11th Cir.1997), principles of invited error require YPPI to now be bound by the jury's statutory damages award and bar us from reviewing YPPI's claim on appeal. See United States v. Ross, 131 F.3d 970, 988 (11th Cir.1997) ("It is a cardinal rule of appellate review that a party may not challenge as error a ruling or other trial proceeding invited by that party.") (quotation marks omitted). The doctrine of invited error "stems from the common sense view that where a party invites the trial court to commit error, he cannot later cry foul on appeal." United States v. Brannan, 562 F.3d 1300, 1306 (11th Cir.2009).
Here, YPPI elected to present both actual and statutory damages theories to the jury, so it could then choose the higher award. Indeed, the court chose to read YPPI's proposed jury instructions to the jury, stating:
[Doc. 429 at 107-08.] This wording follows the Eleventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instructions as well as the rule that YPPI was entitled to either actual or statutory damages, but not both. See Eleventh Circuit
[Doc. 422 (emphasis added).] The use of "or" between the two types of damages could have led the jury to conclude either 1) that it should determine both actual and statutory damages so that a decision could later be made by the plaintiff between the two amounts (and this is certainly what the law requires), or 2) that it should determine an amount for actual
YPPI points out that immediately after the court instructed the jury and explained the verdict form, its counsel requested that the court clarify for the jury that, if the jury found infringement, it should put down an amount for both actual and statutory damages, stating: "I'm not sure it was entirely clear to the jury that they should put an amount for actual and statutory damages — amount for statutory damages. If that happens, we think we'd like to have that clear for the jury." [Doc. 429 at 119.] Counsel for Ziplocal and YPG then objected, claiming: "It's their form. The form is clear. You've already read the instructions." [Id. at 119-120.] We note here that we do not find that YPPI's submission of the jury instructions and verdict form invited the error of which YPPI complains. First, YPPI's jury instruction and verdict form submission generally followed this Circuit's Pattern Instruction and accurately stated the law: under § 504(c), a copyright owner is entitled to an award of only actual damages or statutory damages, but not both. Second, YPPI specifically requested an additional instruction clarifying that the jury should find both statutory and actual damages, so YPPI could later elect. In part, the invited error doctrine serves to prevent a party from building error into the record and later capitalizing on that error. Here, that purpose is not served since YPPI's instruction and verdict form were not incorrect statements of the law, and, in any case, when the district court could still do something about it, YPPI attempted to correct that aspect of the problem that it now appeals.
Nevertheless, even assuming without deciding that the district court erred in declining to give further instructions to the jury, we decline to review the district court's decision not to adjust the statutory award for Ziplocal's direct infringement to at least $750 for each work infringed because YPPI did invite error regarding that issue in another regard. More specifically,
This situation is similar to that in United States v. Fulford, 267 F.3d 1241 (11th Cir.2001), where the defendant-appellant argued that the district court gave an erroneous supplemental instruction in response to a jury question during deliberation. Id. at 1247. The trial court read the jury's question into the record and engaged in a lengthy colloquy with the parties. Id. At the end of the colloquy, the court read its proposed supplemental instruction, confirming with the parties that the instruction was acceptable to them before instructing the jury. Id. The defendant's attorney responded that the instruction was "acceptable to us." Id. When the defendant later attempted to overturn the verdict by arguing that the supplemental instruction was erroneous, the court held that it did not have to reach the question whether the instruction was plain error because the error was invited by the defendant. Id. at 1247. Similarly here, YPPI expressly agreed to the supplemental instruction by stating, "Yes. Okay. We would say yes, Your Honor. That's okay." [Doc. 430 at 6-7.] Having agreed to the proposed instruction in response to the jury's question, indicating that the jury could award zero dollars in statutory damages to one defendant, YPPI has waived its right to challenge that award on appeal.
After the verdict was read, counsel for YPPI did assert that it was "inconsistent" for the jury to award zero dollars in statutory damages against Ziplocal. However, this was after the jury had already deliberated based, in part, on the agreement of all counsel, including YPPI's, that the jury should be told that it could indeed award no statutory damages to one or the other of the defendants. See Fulford, 267 F.3d at 1247 (rejecting the defendant's argument that his acceptance of the court's supplemental instruction did not render it invited error because, five hours later, his counsel requested an additional instruction
We affirm the district court on all issues raised on appeal.