Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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abstractions test

Copyright. A means of comparing copyrighted material with material that is claimed to infringe on the copyright, by examining whether the actual substance has been copied or whether the two works merely share the same abstract ideas. 0 The primary authority for the abstractions test is Judge Learned Hand's opinion in Nichols u. Universal Pictures Corp., 45 F.2d 119 (2d Cir. 1930). abstract of a fine. See NOTE OF A FINE.