On 4/9/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:03:09 -0400, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I'd say there's probably a large degree of philosophical opposition to the idea of copyright over a collection of 4 groups of 20 or so names of cars - not as much over the idea of copyright itself.
You think. I think it's reasonable to assert that a list which is compiled according to novel criteria is itself subject to copyright. I have no problem with examples from each category, the entire list I find problematic.
A list which is compiled according to novel criteria probably is itself subject to copyright.
But I think a lot of people have a philosophical opposition to *that*. Not to copyright itself, but to copyright being granted to an unordered list of things someone thinks is cool.
Again, I'm not denying that copyright protection probably is available to such a list. Just that it's ridiculous to do so, and that it doesn't really matter because use of such a tiny amount of copyrighted materials is almost always fair use, especially in the context of an encyclopedia article about it, distributed by a non-profit charity.
Anthony