protectable

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• Admittedly, no bright line exists between protectable and non-protectable elements, but courts have listed protectable elements as including things like subject matter and posing of subjects; layout, positioning, and arrangement; selection of angles, lighting, shading, and coloring.

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• Photographs are considered protectable under copyright law, allowing the artist to control their use.

• More than the details of a photo are protectable.

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• So, if ideas alone are not protectable, how exactly does an entrepreneur protect an idea long enough to get it off the ground?

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• Research and development, testing, and production activities are protectable activities under the NCRPA.

  Academic text (1995)

• To qualify for protection, activities of joint ventures must be protectable under the Act.

  Academic text (1995)

• The Copyright Office made a decision, which is still important today, that photographs were copyright-protectable subject matter.

  Academic text (1999)

• In general terms, a product feature is functional and not protectable if it is essential to the use or purpose of the article or if it affects the cost or quality of the article.

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• Comparing the two images with these protectable elements in mind, it's difficult to point to any protectable elements of the original photograph that weren't copied.

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• To be protectable, a mark must be either inherently distinctive or shown to have acquired sufficient distinctiveness so that consumers have come to associate that mark with a particular source.

  Academic text (1995)

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