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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: The Schedule of Classes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.230256.29114@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <C1GtzJ.23I@ms.uky.edu> <1993Jan26.173707.21844@eff.org> <1993Jan26.184233.6732@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:02:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.184233.6732@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
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- >In a passing remark, Carl Kadie said:
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- >"The Supreme Court recently affirmed that noncreative collections of
- >facts (e.g. the white pages of the phone book) are not copyrightable."
- >
- >Does this mean that Compuserve's assertion of a "compilation copyright" on
- >the messages in its forums is now invalid, or does that still stand on
- >other grounds than "collection of facts"?
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- CompuServe's "compilation copyright" is not invalidated by the Feist case.
- The copyrights of individual postings remain in the hands of the authors,
- but the copyright of the compilation is CompuServe's.
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- --Mike
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