Kat Von D Beats Infringement Lawsuit Over Miles Davis Tattoo

January 30, 2024By rightstech

Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D beats an infringement lawsuit over a Miles Davis tattoo she inked in 2017. Kat Von D, celebrity tattoo artist and former cosmetics mogul, won a legal battle in federal court last week when a jury ruled that her tattoo reproducing a photo of jazz musician Miles Davis did not violate copyright law. The trial began in Los Angeles last week.

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SCOTUS: No Statute of Limitation on Copyright Damages

By Paul Sweeting

The Copyright Act of 1976 stipulates that a plaintiff must file an infringement suit “within three years after the claim accrued.” For many years, courts have disagreed over when that three-year clock actually starts ticking. Some courts, including some Circuit Courts of Appeal, have held it starts running when the alleged infringement occurred and that suits filed three or more years after that time are not valid. Other courts have held that the statute of limitations only start running when the plaintiff discovers, or reasonably could have discovered, the infringement, even if it occurred more than three years prior — an interpretation known as the “discovery rule.” The U.S. Supreme Court has never decided the issue, and so the “split in the circuits” has continued, to the frustration of plaintiffs and defendants alike.... Read More >>

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