Specifically I cite the historical perspective as laid out by their general counsel, and not the entire bill. I will read this case.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Who owns the copyright for the selection, coordination or arrangement of
the
dumps?
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
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