Ritchie v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• finding express repudiation of ownership when author sent letter “openly claim[ing] exclusive ownership”
• state law claims preempted by Copyright Act are properly recharacterized as copyright claims and subject to the Act’s three-year statute of limitations
• “[T]he ‘complete preemption’ doctrine serves to ‘recharacterize a state law claim ... as an action arising under federal law.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).