Unfortunately, the foregoing two tests are sometimes so difficult to apply in real life that many lower courts analyze the question of protectability under both tests as a means of minimizing the likelihood of reversal on appeal.

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Closed captioning doesn't always appear in real-time, so sometimes the system will miss a first reference.

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Of course, other things seldom stay constant in the real world, so the law of demand is sometimes difficult to test.

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