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Additional damages not punitive

In awarding additional damages under section 97(2) of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988, it was not appropriate to include a purely punitive or exemplary element. But the section was drafted in wide terms so as to permit aggravation awards on far wider factors than at common law.

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