Legal Opinion
Intervest Construction, Inc. v. Canterbury Estate Homes, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 22, 2008No. 07-12596PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
In this copyright infringement action the appellant contends that the district court erred when it examined the two floor-plans at issue, and, emphasizing the differences between the two, concluded “that, as a matter of law, no reasonable fact-finder could conclude” that appellant’s floor-plan (“The Kensington”) was substantially similar to appellee’s floor-plan (“The Westminister”). More specifically, appellant (“Intervest”) argues that the district court employed a “heightened ‘substantial similarly’ standard” by itself focusing upon certain dissimilarities between the…
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