In a US case of copyright infringement, a jury in April decided that music company MP3.com should pay a small record company the sum of $300,000. Later, the jury confessed to the judge in the case that their calculation was in error. The intended figure was between $2 million and $3 million. The court has now declared a mistrial.

MP3.com had initially claimed victory following the original verdict, having been sued originally for $8.5 million by Tee Vee Tunes (TVT). It later transpired that jurors had omitted a zero in calculating the damages due on one juror’s Palm Pilot. The jury first said that a sum of $3,125 should be paid by MP3.com for certain tracks made available on its site without permission from the copyright owner, TVT. In fact, the jury's intended sum was $31,250 per track.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff yesterday ordered a new trial with a new jury.

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