Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 19:53:50 GMT From: "Michael H. Riddle" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Supreme Court: White Pages Not Copyrightable Message-ID: Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 304, Message 10 of 12 Lines: 24 In mort@hpihoah.cup.hp.com (Mark Mortarotti) writes: > I think the point here is that the Phone Company may own my phone number > by not my life. I own my address, and my name. If the phone company wants > to publish my number, go ahead. If any one wants to use my name, or address, > " P A Y M E "!!! If we're really still on the subject of the Court decision, having read it I can say that the issue was much more narrow. It was stricly one of copyright law and compilation. Much of the discussion here, valuable as it has been, was about public policy and phone numbers. For the purposes of copyrighting white pages, however, the subject is substantially narrower, and that was the basis of the Court decision. <<<< insert standard disclaimer here >>>> riddle@hoss.unl.edu | University of Nebraska postmaster%inns@iugate.unomaha.edu | College of Law mike.riddle@f27.n285.z1.fidonet.org | Lincoln, Nebraska, USA