1976) was a case where the author and illustrator of a children's book sued a company that had published a TV skit and a magazine story with a similar title and plot, claiming copyright infringement.

The court found that the plot or theme was not subject to copyright, and there had been no infringement since the book and the story or skit were quite different in all other respects.

Rebecca Reyher wrote My Mother Is The Most Beautiful Woman In The World, a children's book, and Ruth Gannett illustrated it.

The book retells an old Russian story about a small girl who helps her mother on the farm and in the kitchen.

Only the original expression could be protected, and the District court did not find evidence of copying of the text or the illustrations.

It has also been discussed in terms of the scènes à faire doctrine, under which scenes or events that follow inevitably from the situation, in this case, a child separated from a mother and trying to describe her to strangers, cannot be subject to copyright.

[5] The findings have been cited in other cases, such as Wainwright Securities v. Wall Street Transcript Corp (1977)[6] and Monty Python v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.