On 6 Oct, 2011, at 15:34 , Warner Losh wrote: > The issue, in a nutshell, is that the Olsen database took facts from a book, > transformed them in format and placed them into electronic form.
That might be what happened, but that doesn't seem to be the issue in the lawsuit. The plaintiff claims to have been assigned the copyright of "certain copyright-protected computer software programs and information contained therein […] known as the “ACS Atlas”". They claim that Olson and Eggert have "unlawfully reproduced" their copyrighted software. They don't mention a book at all. This seems wrong in ways too numerous to mention, but you can sue just about anyone for just about anything for the price of hiring a lawyer and how these things come out can be surprising often enough to maybe make it worth taking a shot at it. Dennis Ferguson _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
