On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, AvB wrote:
Copyright is about *form*. Original research is about *information*. Guy seems to be arguing the list may be OR in view of the latter criterion.
He seems to be arguing "if it's not copyright, then it must be OR, because if it's novel enough to not count as copyright, it's novel enough to be OR". Since as you've pointed out, copyright and OR aren't the same thing, this doesn't make sense.