Arica Institute, Inc. v. Helen Palmer and Harper & Row Publishers, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff must demonstrate unauthorized copying by defendant to prove infringement
• holding the phrase “you’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything” unprotectable
• reasoning that “facts, whether alone or as part of a compilation, are not original and therefore may not be copyrighted”
• finding that the use of single words or short phrases from a copyrighted work was not infringement of that work, because “single words or short phrases ... do not exhibit the minimal creativity required for copyright protection”
• “single words or short phrases . . . do not exhibit the minimal creativity required for copyright protection”
• affirming district court’s denial of copyright protection over “single words or short phrases which do not exhibit the minimal creativity required for copyright protection.”

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