Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you examine the short stories in a theme anthology, there may be > strong connections between them too (and the stronger the connection, > the stronger the copyright available on the collective work as such). > But a theme anthology is still a collective work, just as much as a > CD full of shovelware is.
Be careful not to confuse copyright issues concerning the constituent works themselves with those of the editor's "compilation copyright", which is a separate matter, legally. When people speak of a "copyright available on the collective work as such", they're most often referring to the latter concept. (If I publish a collection of other people's short stories, I can probably assert title over a copyright property derived from the creative work involved in selecting, arranging, and preparing those other people's property. The law recognises my interest as such. E.g., back when I ran a dial-up BBS, I asserted compilation copyright over the design and arrangement of the system, separately from my title to screens and scripting that I wrote for it.) -- Cheers, No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message. Rick Moen We do concede, though, that a large number of electrons [EMAIL PROTECTED] were terribly inconvenienced. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
