Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
It established a three year limit for bringing such suits. The song in question is fourteen years old.
Would that three years not be from the date of "Flowers" rather than the date of the Bruno Mars song?

No — otherwise, there'd be no point in copyright suits. Ory's heirs had three years to file a suit against Country Joe McDonald for his 1967 song, The I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag infringing Muskrat Ramble written in 1926. Instead, they waited 34 years till the royalties had built up. Judge might have cut some slack had it been filed a reasonable time after the Woodstock movie came out a couple years later—but that wasn't done. 2001 was way too long.Ory case was about authorship and why it was tossed completely for waiting too long.
Ah, right. Now that makes sense.

Thanks Mike.

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