Paramount Pictures Corp. v. Carol Publishing Group

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the work at issue “simply retells the story of Star Trek in a condensed version”
• noting that Twin Peaks was distinguishable but nonetheless applying its broader holding that “a book which tells the story of a copyrighted television series infringes on its copyright”
• finding that defendant’s Joy of Trek book could interfere with plaintiffs market for derivative works, where plaintiff had licensed a number of guidebooks that were derivative works
• explaining that fragmented similarity refers to exact copying of a portion of a work
• “Fragmented similarity refers to exact copying of a portion of a work”

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