Legal Opinion
Situation Management Systems, Inc. v. Asp. Consulting LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 19, 2009No. 08-1543, 08-1585PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff consulting company, as part of its services to domestic and international clients, uses copyrighted training mate rials of several hundred pages geared toward teaching techniques for effective communication and negotiation within the workplace. It sued a competitor saying that the competitor had copied and used training materials substantially similar to plaintiffs in violation of the copyright laws.
This case concerns the proper application of two definitional criteria for what subject matter is eligible for copyright protection. The first is the originality…
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