About: Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop

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Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop (2d Cir. 1976) was a case where the author and illustrator of a children's book sued a company that had published a TV skit and a magazine story with a similar title and plot, claiming copyright infringement. The story was based on an old Russian folk tale. The court found that the plot or theme was not subject to copyright, and there had been no infringement since the book and the story or skit were quite different in all other respects.The court used the "total concept and feel" standard in reaching their decision.

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dbo:abstract	Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop (2d Cir. 1976) was a case where the author and illustrator of a children's book sued a company that had published a TV skit and a magazine story with a similar title and plot, claiming copyright infringement. The story was based on an old Russian folk tale. The court found that the plot or theme was not subject to copyright, and there had been no infringement since the book and the story or skit were quite different in all other respects.The court used the "total concept and feel" standard in reaching their decision. (en)
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dbp:arguedate	1975-10-31 (xsd:date)
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dbp:dateDecided	1976-04-05 (xsd:date)
dbp:fullName	Rebecca REYHER and Ruth Gannett v. CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP and Tuesday Publications, Inc. (en)
dbp:judges	Mulligan, Oakes and Meskill (en)
dbp:keywords	copyright infringement (en)
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dbp:opinions	The essence of infringement lies in taking not a general theme but its particular expression through similarities of treatment, details, scenes, events and characterization (en)
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