Anonymous v. Curtis Publishing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• Court held that “strikingly similar” works must be so identical as to preclude any reasonable possibility of independent creation
• where the plaintiffs experts specifically stated that the works were so substantially similar and that they could not have been independently created.
• “independent creation is an affirmative defense, evidence of which may be introduced to rebut a prima facie case of infringement”

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