Woerner v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “Plaintiffs did not have reasonable notice that Defendants had filed a [copyright] registration in the capacity of employer for hire.”
• “The claim accrues only once, when a reasonably diligent plaintiff would have been put on inquiry as to the existence of a right.”
• copyright registration did not repudiate authorship claim because nominal authors did not have reasonable notice of the nature of the registration
• “at least three types of events [] can put a potential plaintiff on notice and thereby trigger the accrual of an ownership claim”
• “The three-year limitations period applies to ownership claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).