GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge, dissenting: Today this court holds that the idea underlying what may well be the most successful situation comedy in television history was, in 1980, so unoriginal and so en *996 trenched in the public domain that, as a matter of law, it did not constitute intellectual property protected under New York law. Because I am…
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