Copyright: idea/expression dichotomy and tests

Only expression is copyrightable, not ideas (or facts, or history... the more historical/factual, the "thinner" the copyright until is disappears entirely).

Three possible tests courts have used to separate these:
  1. Levels of abstraction
  2. Pattern
  3. Total look & feel
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