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November 26, 2013

Strike a Pose! Madonna Unwittingly Revives De Minimis in Copyright Law

You’ve finally perfected that note on the French horn.  According to the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California though, the sound you make when you blow it probably isn’t sufficiently original and non-trivial to warrant copyright protection.  Or at least that was the case on November 18, 2013, when Judge Beverly Reid […]

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