Bradbury v. Monaghan

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a defendant may rebut a prima facie case of misappropriation of ideas by showing that he or she independently created the work at issue
• finding that plaintiff’s unfair competition claim is “based upon the alleged misappropriation of novel ideas contained in the plaintiff’s copyrighted manuscript”
• distinguishing common law-protected ideas from federal law-copyrightable expressions of ideas
• idea that is not novel is not cognizable as property and thus cannot be misappropriated or stolen
• “Lack of novelty in an idea is fatal to any cause of action for its unlawful use.” (emphasis in original) (cleaned up)
• novelty determined by whether an idea is “truly innovative” and merits special protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).