Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Lynch

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• holding that two stories of talking moons were not substantially similar where pace, dialogue, mood, and theme were different
• holding that anthropomor-phized moon character is unprotectable stock character in children’s literature
• explaining that children's television series was not substantially similar to the authors' copyright works despite similarities in themes, including teaching children to overcome their fears and having magical adventures because such themes are standard topics in children's literature
• “[S]etting[s] [that] naturally and necessarily flo[w] from the basic plot premise ... constitute] scenes-a-faire and cannot support a finding of substantial similarity”
• requiring the compared elements in the extrinsic substantial similarity analysis to be protectible
• “Copyright law only protects expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves”

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