Smith v. Weinstein

How courts have described this case

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• “No character infringement claim can succeed unless plaintiffs original conception sufficiently developed the character, and defendants have copied this development and not merely the broader outlines.”
• “To the extent plaintiff rests his contract claim not on breach of the terms of the contract but on Weinstein’s having copied his property, the KKK script, in making ‘Stir Crazy,’ it is of course preempted.”

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