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The court of appeal applied the general principle that copyright protects not ideas, facts or data, but only the expression itself, and found that what ...

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Copyright law only protects the way ideas are expressed in a particular creation, but does not protect the underlying idea, procedure, method of operation, ...

Copyright protects only a work's expression, not the ideas it contains; ideas may be freely taken and applied. this long-standing principle of copyright law ...

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Copyright law does not protect ideas, methods, or systems. copyright protec- tion is therefore not available for ideas or procedures for doing, making, or.

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Copyright does not protect ideas, only the way the ideas are expressed. this is often referred to as the “idea — expression 'dichotomy',” although the.

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Intellectual property = ideas, theories, movies, plays, books, paintings, ... the idea/expression distinction — copyright protects expressions, not ideas.

The idea/expression dichotomy ... (i) the extent to which copyright protects ideas, ... legislation so as to protect “expressions” but not “ideas,.

Under what conditions, this original work may be used by others. copyright protects exact expression, not ideas. one can plagiarize even a work that is not.

Copyright, of course, protects only the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. in copyright cases, the defense often claims that it has.