On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:34:49AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Under US law, word lists and phone books are not copyrightable (given a
few days I could probably find the court case).
Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc.,
499 U.S. 340 (1991)
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G. Branden
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:50:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Of course, if a company required you to sign an NDA or some other
agreement to look at their database, that would be different, because
it wouldn't necessarily be considered 'published', and it would be
subject to contract law!
So how about that non-EU section?
Having looked into copyright law, I find that there are two primary
theories of copyright:
1. It is a 'natural right', a property right lasting forever, and
national laws merely shorten copyright and remove it from certain
things. This is the view taken
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