Therefore, the defendants' motion for summary judgment must be granted. ![]() While some of the ideas in the two works are similar, it is black letter law that ideas are not copyrightable and, for the reasons explained below, no ordinary reader would view the expression of the ideas as substantially similar. Stripped of unprotectible elements-such as the biblical characters and biblical story-the works are not substantially similar. The trials depicted in the two works are dramatically different in substance, setting, plot, theme, language, and the overall thrust and feel of the works. Can the insights from those stories be brought to life through the convention of a fictional trial of Judas Iscariot in which the issue is: should Judas be admitted to heavenly paradise? That is the background for this copyright case in which the author of a novel about a trial of Judas Iscariot before a fictional World Court of Religion presided over by Solomon and held in the Federal Courthouse in New York's Foley Square claims that the author of a play about a trial of Judas before a fictional judge held in Hope (a place in Purgatory) infringed the copyrights for the novel. It is also a well known part of that story that Judas, wracked with despair, committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree. The biblical story of the betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas Iscariot is well known.
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