Aarti Aggarwal of Remfry & Sagar reports that a decision concerning a company licensed to use the Nokia brand name has confirmed that generic concepts or ideas cannot be protected through copyright ...

An idea behind the work is very difficult to define and also the act of its separation from the expression of idea. In this case, on policy grounds courts are likely to hold that one painter cannot ...

The original version of this story was published on Law.Com For more than a century, the idea/expression dichotomy in copyright law has troubled courts. [FOOTNOTE 1] Only the expression of an idea can ...