For the latest on the copyright preemption doctrine (codified at 17 U.S.C. § 301(a)) look no further than the Fifth Circuit, which, together with its district courts, issued a string of recent decisions regarding the preemption of trade secret claims involving software.  Most recently, the Fifth Circuit found that preemption extends to all fixed original works of authorship, even those…
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