Karen L. Erickson v. Trinity Theatre, Inc., Individually and D/B/A Trinity Square Ensemble

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• noting that “[a] copyright ... protects not the author’s ideas, but only her expression of them”
• finding that a putative joint author must establish that the parties intended to be joint authors at the time the work was created
• holding that copy-rightability test is preferable to Nimmer’s de minimus standard
• observing that \examining the court file\ of the creditor's action against the debtor is part of a reasonable reinvestigation under 15 U.S.C. § 16811
• finding that suggestions for inclusion in a work do not by themselves result in joint authorship because “reliance on collaboration alone ... would be incompatible with the clear statutory mandate” that there be an intent to create a joint work
• rejecting claim of joint authorship in play where “actors, on the whole, could not identify specific contributions that they had made to Ms. Erickson’s works”

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