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PETER LETTERESE & ASSOC. v. WORLD INST. OF SCIENT.

No. 05-15129.

533 F.3d 1287 (2008)

PETER LETTERESE AND ASSOCIATES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WORLD INSTITUTE OF SCIENTOLOGY ENTERPRISES, INTERNATIONAL, Religious Technology Center, Inc., Church of Scientology International, Inc., all California corporations, Church of Spiritual Technology, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 8, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Lee Hoffman, Law Offices of David L. Hoffman, Valencia, CA, Raymond T. Nimmer, University of Houston Law Ctr., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Helena Kempner Kobrin, Moxon & Kobrin, Los Angeles, CA, Elizabeth Brooks Honkonen, Michael Nachwalter, Kenny Nachwalter Seymour Arnold Critchlow & Spector, Thomas John Meeks, Matthew Thomas Davidson, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, HULL and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The parties in this case disagree over the scope of copyright protection in a book about sales techniques authored by the late Leslie Achilles "Les" Dane. Peter Letterese & Associates, Inc. ("PL&A"), the exclusive licensee of the copyright in Dane's book, claims that three entities affiliated with the Church of Scientology have been infringing its copyright by incorporating portions of the book into their instructional course materials...

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