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What Constitutes the "Heart" of a Work?

  • The heart doctrine in substantial similarity tests hinges on subjective p perception and legal judgment.
  • Defining what constitutes the central contribution is inherently ambiguou ambiguous and context-dependent.
  • This ambiguity can lead to inconsistent outcomes across different courts  and cases.

This insight opens the question: How can objective criteria be establishe established to determine a work's "heart" in copyright infringement analyse analyses?

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