Legal Opinion
Berkla v. Corel Corp.
District Court, E.D. California
Decided September 9, 1999No. Civ. S-98-1159 GGHPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
HOLLOWS, Chief United States Magistrate Judge.
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
All art is but imitation of nature. 1
Taking Seneca’s admonition to heart, plaintiff, Dennis Berkla, .has established electronic databases (Garden Hose) containing virtual leaves, blades of grass, flowers, pine cones and the like which constitute a software “nozzle,” which is then digitally “sprayed” to create computerized, realistic pictures of plants, trees, forests, gardens on the computer screen. After supplying some of these databases to defendant Corel for possible inclusion in upcoming Corel software revisions,…
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