Country Kids 'N City Slicks, Inc. v. Vicki Sheen, Bill Sheen, Ladawn Bragg, and Flake Wells, Doing Business as Carousel Kids

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• concluding that plaintiff did not have an infringement claim because its dolls were only similar to defendant’s in their size, shape, and medium—attributes inherent in an unprotected idea
• holding that \wooden form of the traditional paper doll\ is idea not expression
• noting that there is “no reason” to limit the abstraction- filtration-comparison test to computer software cases
• finding shape of human body of doll serves a utilitarian purpose and therefore is not protected by Copyright Act
• vacating and remanding where the appellate court could not “discern whether the district court utilized the correct legal standard ....”
• distinguishing the idea of a wooden form of traditional paper dolls from a copied doll

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