T-Peg, Inc. v. Vermont Timber Works, Inc.

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• holding that district court erred in focusing on differences and in failing to consider those similarities that went to the “overall form” of the building as well as .the “arrangement and composition of spaces and elements”
• stating that the claimant bears the burden of proving a valid copyright and its infringement
• noting that combination of individual standard features in architectural work may be copyrightable
• finding that access may be inferred where there is “evidence that a third party with whom both the plaintiff and defendant were dealing had possession of plaintiff’s work, and the plaintiffs and defendant’s dealings took place concurrently”
• describing the architectural designs at issue as freestanding “timberframed homes” not covered by analogous aesthetic regulations
• “VTW does not challenge Timberpeg’s ownership of a valid copyright in this case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).