Pfotzer v. City of Norwalk

How courts have described this case

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

• “Copying may be established either by direct evidence of copying or by indirect evidence, including access to the copyrighted work[.]”
• “If actual copying is established, a plaintiff must then show that the copying amounts to an improper appropriation by demonstrating that substantial similarity to protected material exists between the two works.”
• referring to this as “the more discerning-ordinary observer test”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).