Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:43:59 -0400 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: free sco unix Message-ID: <2C71AD88EB6F8A4BF72AEDFC@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20110617004745.e5245e96.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <4DFA03A3.8090500@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110616152941.GL5630@external.screwed.box> <201106161154.06300.rsimmons0@gmail.com> <20110616162032.GN5630@external.screwed.box> <3d43539af0e60964a0406b8df304f16c.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <20110616182011.GO5630@external.screwed.box> <20110616184620.GB68867@guilt.hydra> <20110616192133.GP5630@external.screwed.box> <1B9EDB7CFB3ABCAA2E566153@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110617004745.e5245e96.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--As of June 17, 2011 12:47:45 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: >> (And note that a pure list of facts can't be copyrighted: The phone book >> is often an example. It's just a list of names and numbers.) > > Interesting, never tought of that, but sounds obvious. --As for the rest, it is mine. I should be careful with that one actually; It's fairly recent case law in the US that set that particular barrier. I can't guarantee that it's the case elsewhere in the world. In the USA, you have to do something more than just compile the data and present it in a simplistic fashion to gain a copyright. If you have an *interesting* sorting scheme that could do it, or if you add value some other way, but if all you've done are presented the basic facts, you haven't advanced the state of the art. (The other common case in the USA is road maps. A simple 'lines following their geographic contours, labeled' is a set of facts. One result of this is that most road maps in the US either are missing some minor roads, or have minor roads on them that don't exist. It makes them copyrightable.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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