Schoolhouse, Inc. v. Jeff Anderson Margaret Richardson D/B/A Market Solutions

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• basing its decision on the response that a reasonable person would have toward the two works
• basing its decision on the response that a reasonable person would have toward the two works
• no substantial similarity in part because the formats of allegedly infringing website and plaintiffs paper table were very different
• no substantial similarity in arrangement of topics in the work as a whole where defendant’s website made use of only 74% of the categories used in plaintiffs paper table
• “As applied to a factual compilation, copyright law protects an author’s original selection and arrangement of facts, but the facts and ideas within the compilation are free for the taking.”
• use of obvious labels for categories creates insufficient originality

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).