Hyman Rosen wrote:
Rjack wrote:
Perhaps the definitions of "mere aggregation" and "combined work"
can be compared and contrasted.
In a "mere aggregation" separate files are placed on the same
storage medium. In a combined work, separate files are combined
into a single integrated work, typically represented as a single
file, where the so combined components function together.
Are you perhaps claiming it forms a collective work?
17 USC 101 Definitions:
A “collective work” is a work, such as a periodical issue,
anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions,
constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are
assembled into a collective whole.
A “compilation” is a work formed by the collection and assembling of
preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or
arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole
constitutes an original work of authorship. The term “compilation”
includes collective works.
It sounds like blind men are describing an elephant. When
describing a legal document, definitions are of great
importance.
There is no confusion whatsoever, except among those who seek to
deliberately sow it.
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