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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Review a Warner Music Case on Limits to Copyright Damages

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to clarify the time period for which plaintiffs can recover damages over copyright claims in a case involving a Miami music producer who sued Warner Music’s Atlantic Records label after hip-hop artist Flo Rida made use of a 1980s song that he claims he owns.

The justices took up an appeal by two music publishing companies – Warner Music’s Warner Chappell as well as Artist Publishing Group – of a lower court’s ruling that defendants in copyright infringement cases can be held liable for actions that occurred prior to the three-year statute of limitations for filing such litigation.

The two companies had challenged the lower court’s decision that they may owe copyright damages that accrued prior to three years before plaintiff Sherman Nealy sued them.

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