Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Harold Kaufman D/B/A Bay Coin, and Omni Video Games, Inc.

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• recognizing that there might be repeating sequences so simple and invariable, or insubstantial a part of the whole that copyrighting would not be warranted
• recognizing that there might be repeating sequences so simple and invariable, or insubstantial a part of the whole that copyrighting would not be warranted
• “Assessing the entire effect of the [video] game [SCRAMBLE] as it appears and sounds, we conclude that its repetitive sequence of images is copyrightable as an audiovisual display.”
• leaving open the issue whether \a sequence of images ... might contain so little in the way of particularized form of expression as to be only an abstract idea portrayed in noncopyrightable form\
• leaving open the issue whether “a sequence of images ... might contain so little in the way of particularized form of expression as to be only an abstract idea portrayed in noncopyrightable form”
• “many different computer programs can produce the same ‘results’; whether those results are an analysis of financial records or a sequence of images and sounds”

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