Prunte v. Universal Music Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Like scenes a faire, individual words and short phrases are generally not protected because they lack the requisite originality.”
• use of short phrase “so high” and use of touching the sky as a metaphor for being high found to be too clichéd to support a finding of actionable copyright infringement
• use of short phrase \so high\ and use of touching the sky as a metaphor for being high found to be too clichéd to support a finding of actionable copyright infringement
• “Of course, titles are not protectible, and neither are short, common phrases[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).