Peter Letterese & Associates, Inc. v. World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, International

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that copyright protection “does not extend to any underlying ideas, procedures, processes, and systems”
• noting that otherwise defendants would be permitted to copy verbatim as long as they did not copy an entire work
• explaining that “it is the relative portion of the copyrighted work—not the relative portion of the infringing work—that is the relevant comparison”
• noting that qualitatively important copying may be actionable even where “the amount of expression copied [is] quantitatively small with respect to the length” of the copyrighted work
• explaining that there “can be no contributory infringement without a direct infringement” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that there “can be no contributory infringement without a direct infringement” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).