Scarcely a phrase in his operas and songs moves in a conventional or unoriginal curve.
The most aggravating thing about unoriginal fellows is that you cannot well get in a rage with them, for if you find fault with them, you find fault with yourselves.
As long as it's in your head and no one knows of it, you are no better off than the unoriginal many; but give your idea a shape and a name, and you are one of the original few.
It is as easy to be unoriginal as it is hard at times to be original.
But he is only a very inferior sort of official indeed, a mere clerk of the post, and he has all the guarded reserve of your thoroughly unoriginal man.
There too, abroad too, I remained the sameunoriginal creature.
Besides, as an unoriginal person, I don't deserve an individual name.
Yet, unoriginal though the dominant clergywoman of fiction may be, it cannot be denied that St. Paul's injunctions in connection with the subjection of wives did not commend themselves to Mrs. Cotton.
The Supreme Court declared that mere alphabetical listings and other unoriginal assemblies of data cannot be copyrighted.
Europe adopted a Database Directive in 1996 which gave a high level of copyright protection to databases and conferred a new "sui generis" database right even on unoriginal compilations of facts.
Supreme Court made it clear that unoriginal compilations of facts are not copyrightable.
If they are licensing their material or getting it from the public domain, then they may not be lawbreakers but they are still unoriginal slavish imitators.
Westlaw is one of the two leading legal database providers and, as I mentioned before, one of the key proponents of creating intellectual property rights over unoriginal databases.
Feist decision, at which point no one could have thought unoriginal databases were copyrightable.
In the marketing of unoriginal articles, the legitimate interests of the producer are fully served by identifying such products by appending the name or initials of the manufacturer or agent, or by the use of a general brand mark.
