[Foundation-l] copyright question about data

[Edward Peschko]

> >>
> >Augmenting data helps to establish the fact that you are not limiting 
> >yourself to the original author's selection process..  In many of 
> >these cases determining whether there has been a breech of copyright 
> >will never be a black and white situation.  We really are looking at a 
> >balance of probabilities.
> >
> >Ec
> >
> >
> I am not a lawyer, but, in the United States at least, isn't Feist v. 
> Rural relevant?
> 

very relevant.. thanks much for the pointer.

just for the record:

	http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.html

for once, the law seems to be in line with common sense.. ;-)

Ed