On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
Who owns the copyright for the selection, coordination
or arrangement of the
dumps?
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat092303.html
You are citing a proposed bill from 2003-04 that never made it to the
floor for a vote.
To the more general point, I would personally argue that Feist v.
Rural [1] applies to the dumps and the selection / arrangement is
ineligible for copyright. Hence, in my opinion, there is no copyright
for the dump as a whole, though the individual articles in contains
are certainly eligible for copyright.
-Robert Rohde
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service