======= At 2006-09-17, 01:24:37 you wrote: ======= >On 2006-09-16, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A dictionary requires as much work as a phone book and isn't a very >> creative process, now, an encyclopedia, that would be another subject. > >The amount of work isn't important, it's about the creativity. >Writing all those definitions in the dictionary requires >creativity, so you get copyright on the dictionary. > >Just to be clear: when I say dictionary, I don't mean a list >of words, I mean words with definitions, explanations etc. >Wordlists are not protected by copyright of course. > >Merijn
Agree, that's what I mean. But even if there's no creativity, software can produce a lot of valuable output from a dictionary, Thus, dictionaries/databases can generate a value, so it deserves copyright. Actually, I think the subject to copyright isn't creativity (or effort/time/money) but the value that generated by this creativity (or effort/time/money). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
