Legal Opinion
CDN INC., a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kenneth A. KAPES, an Individual D/B/A Western Reserve Numismatics, Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1999No. 1256PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether prices listed in a wholesale coin price guide contain sufficient originality to merit the protection of the copyright laws.
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Kenneth Rapes operates a coin business, Western Reserve Numismatics, in Ohio. In response to many inquiries he received regarding the price of coins, Rapes developed “The Fair Market Coin Pricer,” which listed on his internet web page the retail prices of many coins. In order to generate the prices he listed, Rapes used a computer program he developed to create retail prices from wholesale prices. The exact process is…
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