Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

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• \[I]t is enough that substantial parts were lifted; no plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.\
• \[N]o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.\
• copyright “cannot be limited literally to the text, else a plagiarist would escape by immaterial variations”
• “[I]f by some magic a man who had never known it were to compose anew Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, he would be an ‘author,’ and, if he copyrighted it, others might not copy that poem, though they might of course copy Keats’s.” (citations omitted)

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