On 20 December 2010 18:57, David Murn <[email protected]> wrote: > I can see how this ruling applies to White pages, as that is simply a > listing of facts. Yellow pages however, is very different, with > listings all sorted into categories (some listings into multiple > categories), and a lot of the listings having artwork and other > copyrighted materials like logos, etc. How can someone claim that > theres no creative copyrightable work in the yellow pages?
I saw that comment (possibly from a lawyer commenting on the previous ruling) and I couldn't figure out why the judge(s) would have included the yellow pages in their ruling(s) or why Telstra didn't split/put up a better argument for copyright on their YellowPage phone books... _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

