In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Writing all those definitions in the dictionary requires > creativity, so you get copyright on the dictionary. >It is about as creative as listing phone numbers and names This is a very odd view. Have you ever tried producing good definitions for words? >I don't have any references, but I seem to recall that only the >"presentation" of a dictionary can be copyrighted I would not advise putting any faith in this claim. If it were true, you would easily be able to find the definitions from, say, the OED freely available online, which is not the case. -- Richard _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
