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· 10/5/1978

United States v. Edward Sylvester Hamilton

Citations

  • 583 F.2d 448
  • 200 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 14
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 8613

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • ruling that “trivial elements of compilation and arrangement [] are not copyrightable since they fall below the threshold of originality.”
  • “Trivial elements of compilation and arrangement, of course, are not copyrightable because they fall below the threshold of originality.”
  • “Trivial elements of compilation and arrangement, of course, are not 12 copyrightable since they fall below the threshold of originality.”
  • “Trivial elements of compilation and 12 arrangement, of course, are not copyrightable because they fall below the threshold of 13 originality.”
  • “The early cases recognized that the elements of the 13 copyright (in a map) consist in the selection, arrangement, and presentation of the component 14 parts.”

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Judges: Kennedy, Kilkenny, Sneed

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