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From Country Kids v. Sheen, 77 F.3d 1280 (10th Cir 1996)

Our judgment that the wooden doll is a non-copyrightable idea is reinforced by the Copyright Act's focus on artistic innovation and its refusal to offer protection to utilitarian qualities. The Copyright Act's definition of protectable pictorial, graphic and sculptural works sets out this distinction: "Such works shall include works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned." 17 U.S.C. § 101. Therefore, not only is the idea of a wooden doll not copyrightable, but any basic and utilitarian aspects of the dolls, such as the shape of a human body and standard paper doll poses which are both friendly and inviting and also utilitarian in their ease of manufacture and adaptability to the attachment of various wardrobes, cannot be copyrighted. See Durham Indus., 630 F.2d at 913-16 (because "copyright protection extends only to the artistic aspects, but not the mechanical or utilitarian features, of a protected work," neither idea of small, plastic walking or crawling dolls nor the mechanism that made locomotion possible were copyrightable).

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