Case: Copyrights/Limitations Period (11th Cir.)

The district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Dean Guitars, in a guitar maker’s action for copyright infringement, was affirmed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 11th Circuit agreed with the district court’s holding that a claim concerning mainly copyright ownership accrues only once, and here it was proper for the district court to characterize the guitar maker’s claim as one primarily concerning copyright ownership. The 11th Circuit then noted that the guitar maker had reason to know that his alleged ownership rights in the lightning storm graphic on the original “Dean from Hell” guitar were ...