Statute of Limitations

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A statute prescribing a period of limitation for the bringing of certain kinds of legal action.

On May 9, 2024, in a 6–3 decision, the United States Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act does not limit monetary damages for copyright infringement to those incurred within the three-year statute of limitations: “There is no time limit on monetary recovery,” the Supreme Court declared, “[s]o a copyright…

Continue Reading The U.S. Supreme Court Puts the Remedial Cart Before the Horse:  No Time Limit Exists on Monetary Recovery for Timely Copyright Infringement Claims, but What Claims Qualify as Timely?

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Following the New York Appellate Division’s affirmance of the New York State Supreme Court’s decision in Reif v. Nagy ordering the turnover of two works of art transferred under duress, if not stolen, following the Nazi takeover of…
Continue Reading UPDATE – Dispute over Ownership of Nazi Victim’s Art Turns to Pre-judgment Interest

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In a surprise April 5, 2018 decision in Reif v. Nagy (Index No. 161799/15), the Commercial Division of New York State Supreme Court ordered two pieces of alleged Nazi-looted art turned over to relatives of the original Jewish owner, Fritz Grunbaum……
Continue Reading Surprise Decision in Reif v. Nagy Raises As Many Questions As It Answers

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No one knows exactly how much art and cultural property the Nazis stole during what Agnes Peresztegi has called “the greatest art theft in history.” According to the Holocaust-Era Looted Art: A World-Wide Preliminary Overview, presented at the 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, a “very considerable amount of looted movable artwork…and [cultural] property” held both privately and publicly remains to be recovered more than seventy years later. That same overview found……
Continue Reading A Proposed Uniform Statute of Limitations for Nazi-Plundered Art and Cultural Property