They couldn't take any infringement claims to court that occurred more than three years prior to today.
They could send a letter asking for payment, but that's as far as they could go.
There are so many existing infringements that I don't think that searching the archives for old infringements would be productive.
They only check the archives to see how long an existing infringement has persisted, and they base their demands on that.
If they didn't check the archives, they could only claim a period of use from when they first discovered the infringement to when the image(s) were removed.
That would probably only be 3 to four months.
In any case, it's unlikely that a lawsuit would make it court about old infringements based on purely archival evidence.
Such cases would be difficult to litigate, and there are thousands of easier targets.
S.G.
Topic: Does copyright infringement have a time limit? (Read 14082 times)