Re: [IFWP] Re: DOJ investigating NSI

[Martin B. Schwimmer]

>From today's Washington Post:

"NSI argues that it has an exclusive right to the database because the
company's original agreement with the National Science Foundation specified
that it would own any "intellectual property" created by the
address-registration business. "It's very clear that we have the rights to
this data," said NSI spokesman Christopher Clough."



Mr. Clough, can you please clarify your statement in view of the Supreme
Court's Feist decision - specifically, what data in the whois database
might rise to be intellectual property?  

The fictitious names and addresses would remain the property of the DN owner.