Polino Contracting Inc. v. Division of Highways

How courts have described this case

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• finding no similarity where generic elements were “executed in defendants’ song in a different way and to varying degrees” than in plaintiff’s song (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding no probative similarity between two songs where “the call and response applied only generically to the two songs and was executed in defendants’ song ‘in a different way and to varying degrees’”
• “it is well-established that common phrases are not protectable under copyright”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).