TRAVIS LOGAN MERCER v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• admonishing that “probative similarity” requires that the two works are “so similar that the court may infer that there was factual copying”
• determining that menu command hierarchy is an \uncopyrightable method of operation\
• finding of probative similarity requires that copyrighted work and allegedly infringing work are so similar that factual copying can be inferred
• describing “probative similarity” as when “the offending and copyrighted works are so similar that the court may infer that there was factual copying”
• showing ownership of a true copyright requires that a plaintiff “prove that the work as a whole is original”
• noting that “[wjhile the Altai test may provide a useful framework for assessing the alleged nonliteral copying of computer code, we find it to be of little help in assessing whether the literal copying of a menu command hierarchy constitutes copyright infringement”

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