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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP Maps Used For Commerce
Message-ID: <1989Sep21.155019.3598@twwells.com>
Date: 21 Sep 89 15:50:19 GMT
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In article <10017@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
: Even assuming that the maps were copyrighted, in what way do you think
: that prevents someone from using them to make a mailing list?  Or do you
: think that a using the names in the mailing list is in some way
: republishing the maps?
:
: Just how much power of restriction do you think a copyright grants?

I answered this one in an earlier message in this thread.

Assuming that the courts take a stance similar to the one they do on
dictionaries and the like, just taking the names from the list,
without verifying them or otherwise putting in some of your own
effort into making your mailing list, would be a copyright violation.
However, if one does some (non mechanical) verification of the data
or uses the list, say, as verification for another list, that would
not be a copyright violation.

This does not prevent someone from making a mailing list from the
maps, it just means that they have to work a bit for their list.

Remember: this is assuming that they treat these as they do similar
printed informational works.

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