Murray Hill Publications, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• noting that where idea and expression are intertwined and where non-protectable ideas predominate, expression is not protected
• “Of the two principles, that ideas are not protectible and that expressions are protectible, it is the former that is the stronger.”
• “Of the two principles, that ideas are not protectible and that expressions are protectible, it is the former that is the stronger.”
• substantial similarity is to be assessed “[a]t the level of actual expression[.]”
• substantial similarity is to be assessed “[a]t the level of actual expression[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).