New York Court of Appeals March 31, 1983 (Sporn v. MCA Records, Inc.)

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OPINION OF THE COURT

Jasen, J.

The issue raised on this appeal is whether plaintiff’s cause of action for unauthorized commercial exploitation of a master phonograph record accrued for the purpose of computing the Statute of Limitations when defendant first began using plaintiff’s property as its own or whether a new cause of action arose each time the defendant used what plaintiff