Lou Shaw Eastborne Productions, Inc. v. Richard Lindheim Michael Sloan Universal City Studios, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting Systems McA Television, Ltd.

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• holding that in copyright action involving literary works, satisfaction of extrinsic test is sufficient to survive summary judgment on issue of substan- tial similarity
• applying the extrinsic test to determine \whether there is substantial similarity between the protected expression of ideas in two literary works\
• reversing lower court’s grant of sum mary judgment for the defendant where reasonable minds could differ
• Where reasonable minds could differ on a finding of substantial similarity, summary judgment is improper.
• \Copyright law protects an author's expression; facts and ideas within a work are not protected.\
• “We decline to expand the scope of the Lanham Act to cover cases in which the Federal Copyright Act provides an adequate remedy”

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