-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEAREKAAYFAkka9GIACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oL4tQCdFLNWqYhYGTRwbPZ6toD9uX2c tCUAn02eE31TsFAGXpBojYAgqbGhJljq =hrAQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > 2008/11/12 Patrick Kenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Unfortunately, this is a common misconception of copyright law. >> >> In the US, where I live, the law grants an exception for "education >> purposes." This is not a blanket exemption for any educational use; >> instead, it means that one person, for their own enrichment, can make >> copies _for their own personal use_ without fear of persecution. For >> example, I can photocopy a book in a library, or I can type parts of the >> book verbatim into my computer. > > Surely a set of words and their translations could not be considered > to fall under the book's copyright? If I published a book that > consisted of "book: shu1. cat: mao1. car: qi4che1", how could I > reasonably claim copyright infringement if someone created three cards > for those word/translation pairs? I don't own those words or the > translation. Copyright applies to dictionaries as much as anything; a list can embody creative input - this is one reason that on Wikipedia, we have to be careful, as even just copying all the titles of articles in another encyclopedia into a list (so we can see what Wikipedia is missing) can be infringement! Leaving that aside, facts or words can in a sense be owned. That's the most pernicious consequence of 'database copyrights': <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Database_right>. Intellectual Property. One nasty minefield. -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
