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- From: pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Any way to *CREATE* Vcr+ (VCR PLUS) codes??? (please read)
- Message-ID: <PCL.93Jan7111706@rhodium.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 11:17:06 GMT
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- In-reply-to: curt@kcwc.com's message of 6 Jan 93 22:04:08 GMT
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- In article <29342@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) writes:
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- You can copyright anything. The question is whether it would
- hold up in court or not. No copyright on just a number would hold up in
- court however.
-
- But you can Copyright a table of numbers and show times that you publish
- (which is what they do). However, it's questionable if they could claim
- infringment if you copied some of those numbers and times and re-publilshed
- them. I'm sure however, that Gemstar would take you to court if they could
- prove that you copied one of they copyrighted listings, and let the court
- decide.
-
- A similar case was decided in the UK about a year ago. TV listing
- used to be the perogative of the broadcasting companies, so there were
- only two magazines: one by the BBC and the other by the independents
- acting in concert. Recently, it was held that this was monopolistic,
- and so now anyone can publish listings.
-
- Paul
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