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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Copyrights on Usenet Articles
Message-ID: <24599@gryphon.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 17:23:10 GMT
References: <24551@gryphon.COM> <22225@usc.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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[there really ought to be a something.copyrights, huh ?]

In article <22225@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <24551@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>
>>Merely collecting material does not give you a compilation copyright.
>>You need to add to it or change it in a not insignificant manner
>>(usually taken to be 30%)
>
>The last sentence is FALSE. Compilations don't involver "additions" or
>"changes" of any proportion, but "methods and logic of organization":

It's hard to make any true appraisel of what I recalled from talking
to trish; what she recalled talking to the lawyer etc. 

One could correlate my statement: ``Merely collecting material does not
give you a compilation copyright'' with Marco's statement about
``methods of logic or organization''.

At any rate, it's just one lawyers opinion, and of course no precendent exists.

No of course there is no right answer.

This is why I liked math. When you got an answer you could actually
*check it*, wheras with any other classes it were all shades of grey.

>It is widely known that Compuserve successfully won a case against a
>BBS that reproduced its entire file database (in structure and logic).

I though that never actually went to trial and was settled out
of court.

??