Alan Mackenzie wrote:
An example of a "mere aggregation" is two books bound together in a single spine. However, if two authors were to cooperate to produce a single book, this would not be a "mere aggretation" - it would be a tightly integrated whole - just like a single binary resulting from a compilation process.
No. What's missing from the compilation case is the work of authorship. Copyrighted works are created by human authors doing creative work. Period. Any other way of creating a work that contains pieces of copyrighted material results in just that - a pile of stuff with copyrighted material in it. The work as a whole cannot be separately copyrighted. The right to make copies of it is the intersection of the right to make copies of the pieces. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
