[WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

The sweat-of-the-brow case
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service) 
 
is actually a rather specific and technical exception to the general rule  of 
"minimal spark of creativity".
 
This was a telephone book, which one company took, and *did not copy* the  
pages, they copied the *content* of those pages, and then inserted that content  
into a broader database of similar content i.e. the listings for all of 
Kansas,  instead of just the one town.
 
The ruling, writen I think by O'Connor was fairly narrow and not as extreme  
as some are implying.
 
The ruling did *not* repeal sweat-of-the-brow.  What it did was state  that 
your work must have some creativity, some originality, some non-obvious  
content in order to enjoy copyright protection.
 
 
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