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Can one be sued for plagiarizing the structure of a storyline?
Asked on Oct 30th, 2013 on Intellectual Property - Florida
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I am using the structure of movies to help me structure my own story but he content and essentially everything else is different. The structure of ones story i think falls under what is idea but even then, I'm just using it as a template so to speak. The structure in the end is different. Can I still be sued?
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Here is a Wikipedia discussion of this question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea-expression_divide
It is difficult to give a more personalized opinion without having more details and this space is not conducive to sharing the details needed to offer a more personalized opinion.
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Todd
Answered on Nov 05th, 2013 at 8:48 AM