Torah Soft Ltd. v. Drosnin

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• granting summary judgment where similarity between defendant’s and plaintiffs work concerned only nonprotectable elements of plaintiffs work
• “[N]oninfringement may be decided as a matter of law either when the similarity concerns only noncopyrightable elements of plaintiff’s work, or when no reasonable trier of fact could find the works substantially similar.”
• district court declined to exercise jurisdiction over foreign copyright claims because the United States copyright claim had been dismissed
• “It is well-established that computer programs are protected by copyright law as literary works. (citing Computer Assoc. Int'l, Inc. v. Altai, Inc., 982 F.2d 693, 702 (2d Cir.1992)
• the three-step analysis of abstraction-filtration-comparison first abstracts the program, then filters out unprotectable elements, and, third, compares the remaining protectable elements to the alleged infringer’s work to assess whether substantial similarity exists
• at this stage, “the court filters out those elements that are not protectable.”

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