CDN INC., a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kenneth A. KAPES, an Individual D/B/A Western Reserve Numismatics, Defendant-Appellant

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• finding that the process of publishing wholesale prices of coins was sufficiently original to be copyrightable
• “[T]he higher the level of abstraction copied, the less likely [the copy] will be [an] infringement of a copyright.”
• “Because 5 stipulations serve both judicial economy and the convenience of the parties, courts will enforce 6 them absent indications of involuntary or uninformed consent”
• “The 15 withdrawal of an objection is tantamount to a waiver of an issue 16 for appeal.”
• “Subject matter created by and original to the author merits copyright 25 protection. Items not original to the author, i.e., not the product of his creativity, are facts 26 and not copyrightable.”
• district court did not abuse its discretion in denying reconsideration where question whether it could enter protective order in habeas action limiting Attorney General’s use of documents from trial counsel’s file was debatable

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