25 Sep
2007
25 Sep
'07
5:37 p.m.
M. Warner Losh scripsit:
Next, it is unlikely to qualify for copyright
protection because
there's not enough creative content in these files. While they may be
pedantically correct, their contents may not be creative enough to
qualify for copyright protection. The phone book doesn't qualify,
even if it is correct, for example.
True in the U.S., which uses the "originality" standard; false in the
U.K., which uses the "sweat of the brow" standard.
IANAL; TINLA.
--
Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim John Cowan
"Who is this Hemingway? / Who is this Proust? cowan(a)ccil.org
Who is this Vladimir / Whatchamacallum, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
This neopostrealist / Rabble?" she groused.
--George Starbuck, Pith and Vinegar