level of abstraction

level of abstraction. Copyright. The degree to which a work describes an idea or process in a general rather than concrete way. • Judge Learned Hand posited that from any work one can restate the idea in more and more abstract ways, omitting more and more details, until one is left with an uncopyrightable idea rather than a protectable work of originality. See Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., 45 F.2d 119 (2d Cir. 1930).

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资深译员姚坚，国际知名语言学院法律翻译专业，擅长翻译各类与主权诉讼，仲裁及债务解决相关的法律文件。