Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation v. McA Inc.

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• 13 alleged distinctive plot similarities between Battlestar Galáctica and Star Wars may be basis for a finding of copyright violation
• “Since substantial similarity is usually an extremely close question of fact, summary judgment has traditionally been disfavored in copyright litigation.”
• “A grant of summary judgment for 23 plaintiff is proper where works are so overwhelmingly identical that the possibility of 24 independent creation is precluded.”

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