Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Suffield wrote: I don't see what's so interesting about the group of things in which copyright would subsist if the world were different. Perhaps you've missed the point. I'll try more detail: Whether there exists a valid copyright on a work depends on * aspects intrinsic to the work *

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:33:47PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: snip The proper terms for what you describe here are copyright does not subsist in this work, where the verb is subsist

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 00:16 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In another topic, I prefer the term copyrighted. Copyrightable is an ugly, ugly term... and everything that is

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: snip The proper terms for what you describe here are copyright does not subsist in this work, where the verb is subsist (alternatively copyright protection does not subsist, but even lawyers don't usually

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In another topic, I prefer the term copyrighted. Copyrightable is an ugly, ugly term... and everything that is copyrightable is copyrighted by default... I see a fine distinction

copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-12 Thread Martin Dickopp
Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In another topic, I prefer the term copyrighted. Copyrightable is an ugly, ugly term... and everything that is copyrightable is copyrighted by default... I see a fine distinction between the two terms. For example, a work created by the U.S.