Alexander v. Haley

How courts have described this case

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• finding no infringement where “[m]any of the claimed similarities are based on matters of historical or contemporary fact”
• “[attempted escapes, flights through the woods pursued by baying dogs, the sorrowful or happy singing of slaves, the atrocity of the buying and selling of human beings, and other miseries” are all scenes afaire, “indispensable, or at least standard, in the treatment of a given topic”
• use of “stock ideas” not actionable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).