On 2006-09-17, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if you want to call the OED and M-W a "word encyclopedia" and > not a dictionary, I guess we are on the same page. OED entries are > copyrighted, the short phrases from a "simple dictionary" are not. > > You are again implying that longer phrases, for example several > entries, would be copyrighted. I.e that size does infact matter, > while just above you say that it doesn't.
There's no necessary condition of size. Like I said, a haiku is copyrighted but a big phone book is not. What matters is the creativity you put into it. But it's a nice yardstick: long texts are hard to produce without any creativity, so we can presume that a long text is creative. See it as a heuristic if you want. Anyway, I really need to get some sleep now, so I'm done here. Merijn -- Remove +nospam to reply _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
