Copyright infringement quiz

Independent creation is another way of saying that the copyrighted work was not copied.
This defense is fairly straightforward.
Any similarities are irrelevant if you can prove you created your work independently without knowledge of or exposure to the other person’s copyrighted material.

The copyright on a factual compilation is limited to formatting.
The copyright does not extend to the facts themselves.
To establish copyright infringement, two elements must be proven:

Copyright infringement is violation of exclusive rights of the copyright holder, the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright such as:

The basis of the test is to determine whether an average lay observer would recognize the alleged copy as having been appropriated from the copyrighted work.
The ordinary observer is then taken as a bench mark against the determination of presence or absence of substantial similarity.