On 25 Jul 2005 at 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/25/2005 11:53:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > And so far as I am aware, you can't copyright data. > > > You can absolutely copyright data. If I do some original research that > results in data collection or construction, that's proprietary. > > If fonts technically qualify as data by this definition, however, I > don't know.
In the US, data cannot be copyrighted: http://musicbrainz.org/papers/mb_license.html As the case was decided in a US court, it seems pretty clear to me that it was wrongly decided. But it would definitely depend on the legal definition of "data." -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
