Brignoli v. Balch Hardy and Scheinman, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a breach of an agreement of confidentiality is not equivalent to a copyright claim for preemption purposes.
• a claim alleging “a breach of ... [a] duty of confidentiality is not equivalent to' a copyright claim”
• “Nevertheless, [the] plaintiffs’ . . . breach of contract claims . . . involve an element beyond unauthorized reproduction and use—a promise to pay plaintiff for use of his product.”
• contractual term is “extra element”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).