Golden Tee Copyright and Trade Dress

Andrew Raff
March 16, 2005

Instructions on how to use trackball as a method for operating a golf video game are not protectable under copyright. The scènes à faire doctrine prevents a copyright owner from asserting copyright protection over the elements that are not distinctive parts of a video golf game. Incredible Technologies, Inc. v. Virtual Technologies, Inc., 03-3785 (7th Cir., Mar. 15, 2005).

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