O. W. Donald v. Zack Meyer's T. v. Sales and Service, Moore Business Forms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• striking similarity between business forms compels conclusion that those drafted by nonlawyer were either consciously or unconsciously copied from prior works and were not independently created
• “It is settled law that to obtain a valid copyright, as distinguished from a patent, the applicant need not show that the material in question is unique or novel; it need only be original.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).