creativity

Copyright. The degree to which a work displays imaginativeness beyond what a person of very ordi-nary talents might create.

• Labor and expense are not elements of creativity; for that reason, they are not protected by copyright. Feist Pubs., Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 111 S.Ct. 1282 (1991). Cf. ORIGINALITY; SWEAT-OF-THE-BROW DOCTRINE. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 12. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property §§ 19–20, 92.]

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