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Themes in 'Gang Life' Book Too Common to Copyright, Third Circuit Says

New Jersey Law Journal

January 16, 2013

Gang life marked by death and prison is a common theme not subject to copyright, a federal appeals court held in affirming dismissal of a suit by an author who claimed recording artist 50 Cent stole from his autobiography.

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