Egon, >> It was a lot of work to collect this data, and we spend a lot >> of time and money keeping it very current. > > Doesn't the latter not include 'creativity' ? Seriously, I have no > clue how creativity is defined legally, but looking at the music, > movies, etc, around, is mostly is just money spend to make something, > and shows little creativity, if any... practically, it seems to me > 'creativity' == 'added value' == 'money spend to produce it'...
If money could be equated with creativity, then Bill Gates could be said to be creative, clearly a contradiction! But seriously, this issue has been very clearly resolved by the courts a long time ago. No matter how much time and money you spend collecting, the mere act of collecting is not a creative act. Picking up stones and putting them in a pile, no matter how large, is not being creative. Picking up stones and sculpting the pile into something interesting is creative. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
