[Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

[Anthony]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 22 August 2012 20:50, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>> It possibly has a very thin copyright.
>>
>> Copyright doesn't have thickness. Either it is copyrightable or it isn't.
>
> Incorrect.  In some works, some aspects are copyrighted, and some
> aspects are not.

As for the term "thin" as it refers to copyright, see the seminal case
of Feist.  "This inevitably means that the copyright in a factual
compilation is thin."