Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust v. Spielberg

How courts have described this case

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

• middle-aged male neighbors suspected of killing a woman is simply “a basic character type” that “do[es] not rise to the level of protectible expression”
• middle-aged male neighbors suspected of killing a woman were simply “a basic character type”
• a male protagonist confined to his home spies on neighbors, discovers that a neighbor is a murderer, is attacked by the murderer, and is vindicated of falsely accusing the guilty neighbor
• When analyzing two characters for similarities, courts examine the \ 'totality of [the characters'] attributes and traits as well as to the extent to which the defendants' characters capture the 'total concept and feel' of figures in [plaintiff's work].\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).