In re Defender Mfg. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that claim accrues when a plaintiff “knows or has reason to know of the injury upon which the claim is premised”
• holding that claim of coauthorship accrued when putative coauthors reached majority, which occurred after defendant obtained copyright that did not identify putative coauthors
• providing that claims of authorship under the Copyright Act are subject to a three-year statute of limitations
• claims for a declaration of copyright ownership rights and an accounting of profits are time-barred three years after accrual
• “A cause of action accrues when a plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury upon which the claim is premised.”
• “[C]opyright ownership by reason of one’s status as co-author of a joint work arises directly from the terms of the Copyright Act itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).