Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

[Tony Bowden]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:53:16PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> > The information is factual. Factual information cannot be
> > copyrighted. Only the arrangement of it.
> 
> Nope.  What is a chart?  Billboard or R&R or whoever's view of what the most
> popular songs in a given week were.  They all use different methodologies,
> and are sort of an estimation as to what the popular songs are.

Not the issue.

The fact you are recording is "What Billboard said was number one". *That*
is a fact. Why they decided it was number one isn't the issue. 

Tony
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