Diversey v. Schmidly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that three-year limitation period for copyright infringement claims begins to run when “the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the infringement,” with claims for distinct infringements accruing separately
• stating that a claim accrues when the copyright owner has knowledge of a violation or is chargeable with such knowledge
• noting that all such reasonable inferences are resolved in the plaintiff’s favor
• “A defendant may be vicariously liable even when he or she is not aware of the infringing activity.”
• “[A] defendant can … be secondarily liable for another’s copyright infringement under principles of vicarious and contributory liability.”
• “[A] defendant can also be secondarily liable for another’s copyright infringement under principles of vicarious and contributory liability.”

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