“expression” of an idea, the court held that the specific numbers the manufacturer assigned to its fasteners were not protectable. therefore, the.

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Copyright protection extends to a description, explanation, or illustration of an idea or system, assuming that the requirements of copyright law are met.

Copyright law is not concerned with the reproduction of ideas, but with the reproduction of the form in which ideas are expressed. 22 prior to 1911, the uk ...

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The doctrine provides that an author's ideas, no matter how ... this paper formulates a rights-based account of the idea/expression dichotomy.

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Intellectual property is increasingly being recognized as an important ... compulsion) is the expression of an idea on the part of the author.

Copyright law of a country grants authors, composers, software writers, ... protects the literary or artistic (and not functional) expression of an idea.

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This means that copyright law only protects the expression of facts in a creative manner or the expression of an idea (which is presumably the fruit of one's.

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Patricia loughlan * the marketplace of ideas and the idea-expression distinction of copyright law 'the first axiom of copyright is that copyright protection ...

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If there is only one or very few ways to express an idea, the expression is deemed to be “merged” with the idea and it is not protected against copying. this “ ...