{"id":664,"date":"2024-05-09T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/copyright-infringement-damages-are-not-limited-to-three-years-supreme-court-says\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:31:34","slug":"copyright-infringement-damages-are-not-limited-to-three-years-supreme-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/copyright-infringement-damages-are-not-limited-to-three-years-supreme-court-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright Infringement Damages Are Not Limited to Three Years, Supreme Court Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Copyright holders can seek past damages for infringement beyond the three years prior to the timely filing of their infringement suits, a divided U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyers.html\">Supreme Court<\/a> ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But the court, in its 6-3 decision, left perhaps for another day a ruling on when exactly the three-year clock for filing an infringement case begins: when the infringement occurred or when the holder discovered or should have discovered the <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/copyright-lawyers.html\">copyright<\/a> was infringed. So, in its decision regarding damages, the court \u201cassume[d] without deciding that a claim is timely\u201d if brought within three years of the infringement\u2019s discovery regardless of when the infringement occurred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright holders can seek past damages for infringement beyond the three years prior to the timely filing of their infringement suits, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[429,143,532,892,990,533,148],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-copyright","tag-court","tag-damages","tag-infringement","tag-limited","tag-supreme","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}