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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: [ucb.org.csua, et al.] Re: The Schedule of Classes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.190021.23744@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <C1F4Bs.Hxp@ms.uky.edu> <1k227h$dsb@agate.berkeley.edu> <JMC.93Jan25201400@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:00:21 GMT
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- In article <JMC.93Jan25201400@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >If the phone book database is copyrighted, the owner can go after whoever
- >uses it without permission except for what is legally "fair use". Using
- >it for a mass mailing would not count as "fair use".
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- According to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Feist case, the information in
- a phone book is not copyrightable--only its particular arrangement is.
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- --Mike
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- Mike Godwin, |"I'm waiting for the one-man revolution
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