It is recommended that the designated overseer discuss institutional policies with the institution's legal counsel. An educational institution holding an image archive should have a designated overseer who is responsible for carrying out the principles outlined in the VRA Image Collection Guidelines. Information on source data should be available to the collection users. Usually, though not always, individuals who adhere to institutional policies will be indemnified by their institutions against all the costs they may suffer if they are sued. Similarly, the law gives judges discretion to cancel an award of damages if an infringer had a good-faith basis for believing that the infringing use was a fair use.
Willful infringement means that an individual knew an act was infringing and did it anyway.
Statutory damages are those authorized by the copyright statute as an award to a copyright claimant without any need for the claimant to prove that he had even one cent of actual financial damage from the infringement. He proves infringement, and he gets the statutory damages.