AUDIENCE TEST

audience test.Copyright. A judicial analysis used to determine whether the lay observer or an

ordinary,  reasonable  audience  would  conclude  that  the  protectable  expression  in  a  copyrighted

work   is   substantially   similar   to   the   expression   in   the   accused   work.   —   Also   termed

ordinary-observer  test;  ordinary-lay-observer  test.  [Cases:  Copyrights  and  Intellectual  Property

53(1).][Blacks Law 8th]