Jann Letran, a Canadian author, wrote a book called The Death of Pie in 2002. It is about an alligator, a giraffe, and an Iroquois baked together in a pie. Hector Lobos - Villa, a Brazilian author, wrote a book in 1979 about a mongoose, an elephant, and an Amazonian aboriginal baked together in a pie. Letram admits that he was influenced by Lobos-Villa's book. Otherwise, the two books are very different - for one thing, they're written in different languages. Assume that Brazil is not a signatory of the Beme Convention but is a party to the copyright symbol followed only by the author's name. Has Latram infringed Lobos-Villa's copyright?

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Ideas themselves are not protected by copyright; only the expression of those ideas is. Since Letram's book is different in its expression, it does not infringe on Lobos-Villa's copyright.

Jann Letran, a Canadian Author, Wrote a Book Called the Death