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From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Copyright
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.154747.8760@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 15:47:47 GMT
References: <9121@buster.UUCP> <1991Feb25.130709.11347@ims.alaska.edu> <1991Mar2.030943.1970@cs.ucla.edu>
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In article <1991Mar2.030943.1970@cs.ucla.edu> gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:
>In article <1991Feb25.130709.11347@ims.alaska.edu> floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
>>In article <9121@buster.UUCP> rabbit@buster.UUCP (Dr. Roger Rabbit) writes:
>>[...] 

In case it is not clear, the following is what I said:

>>A collection of material, be it public domain or usenet articles,
>>can be copyrighted by the whoever puts the collection together.
>>It is a valid copyright, for the collection.  If something in
>>the collection is otherwise distributed by someone otherwise
>>authorized to distribute it there is no violation of the
>>copyright for the collection.
>

>Well, if I understand what you are saying, I can take a bunch of
>copyrighted software, make a collection of these pieces of
>software, copyright it, and sell it.  I think this statement is
>completely false.  I can only include a piece in the collection
>if I have the permission of the copyright owners for that piece.
>After obtaining that permission, then I can copyright the
>collection.

>David


You missed what I said.  I guess.  Because what you said is
*exactly* the same thing.  If you have permission to include
the copyrighted material in your collection you can indeed
copyright the collection.  If the material is in the public
domain, you indeed have that permission.

I don't see what is so confusing about that.

Floyd
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