MILES, JOSEPH v. GREAT LAKES CHEESE OF NEW YORK, INC

How courts have described this case

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• stating that neither ideas nor plot elements that flow predictably from such general idea are protectable
• noting that while “[s]uch dismissals [] were formerly rare,” they are “now more common”
• noting that “it is difficult to draw a principled line to determine at what level of abstraction the expression [in the copyrighted work] loses its protection and becomes a mere idea.”
• suggesting that courts should “keep[] sight of the work’s total concept and feel”
• upholding such a dismissal and stating that they were “formerly rare” but “are now more common”
• discussing the effect of the idea-expression determination on the extent of copyright protection in a television show

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).