Situation Management Systems, Inc. v. Asp. Consulting LLC

How courts have described this case

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• where the First Circuit found the de minimis exception inapplicable when infringement had been alleged “through the overall structure and arrangement” of the plaintiff’s work
• “…[T]o the extent that SMS’s works teach a process or system for effective communication and negotiation, others may freely describe that process or system by using their own original expression …”
• copyright protection available for expressions that describe ideas, processes or systems

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).