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substantially similar. Based on its findings, the district court granted summary judgment to the
defendants and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over Tomaydos other claims.
Tomaydo timely appealed their copyright claim.
II.
A.
We review a district courts grant of summary judgment de novo.
Jones v. Blige,
558 F.3d 485, 490 (6th Cir. 2009). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a) states that summary
judgment is appropriate if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material
fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. We review the factual evidence
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17 U.S.C. 101.
compilation author typically chooses which facts to include, in what order to place them, and
how to arrange the collected data so that they may be used effectively by readers. Feist,
499 U.S. at 348. When a compilations selection and arrangement are produced in an original
way, the compilation is entitled to copyright protection. Id. at 349. However, the copyright
protection extends only to the original aspect of the compilation; it does not protect the
underlying unoriginal elements. Id. at 348.
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