P&G Escapes Copyright Claims More Than Three Years Old

Procter & Gamble Co. and Walmart Inc. avoided claims that they used a photographer’s copyrighted works dating back more than three years, after the Southern District of Ohio affirmed that the Copyright Act’s look-back provision bars the claims.

The court declined to topple its earlier decision that plaintiff Annette Navarro may proceed to trial only for damages occurring in the past three years.

The court rested its decision on a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opinion finding the look-back provision applies even if the injury was only recently discovered.

Navarro alleges that P&G “almost exclusively” used her ...