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SATAVA v. LOWRY

No. 02-16347.

323 F.3d 805 (2003)

Richard SATAVA, an individual; Satava Art Glass, a sole proprietorship, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Christopher LOWRY, an individual; Christopher Richards, an Opinion individual; Makawao Glassworks, LLC, dba Hot Island Glass, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 20, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delbert J. Barnard, Barnard & Pauly, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellants.

Roger R. Myers and Lisa M. Sitkin, Steinhart & Falconer, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: SILVERMAN and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, Senior District Judge.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge.

In the Copyright Act, Congress sought to benefit the public by encouraging artists' creative expression. Congress carefully drew the contours of copyright protection to achieve this goal. It granted artists the exclusive right to the original expression in their works, thereby giving them a financial incentive to create works to enrich our culture.1 But it denied artists the exclusive right to ideas...

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