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Racial Purity Laws In The United States And Nazi Germany: The Targeting Process, Judy Scales-Trent
Racial Purity Laws In The United States And Nazi Germany: The Targeting Process, Judy Scales-Trent
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Protecting The Performers: Setting A New Standard For Character Copyrightability, Mark Bartholomew
Protecting The Performers: Setting A New Standard For Character Copyrightability, Mark Bartholomew
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Copyright law protects expressions of ideas, but not the idea itself. Legal disputes over characters arise in the continuum between an idea for a character that has not been expressed at all, and an idea that has been given complete form and shape. The inconsistent common law tests developed to assess character copyrightability demonstrate the difficulty in pinpointing where the dividing line between an undeveloped idea and a sufficiently expressed character should be set. This Article offers a new paradigm for determining character copyrightability, particularly in the case of characters shaped through live performance, that tracks the Hegelian concept of …