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Re: Subject: Midrange List Guidelines

  • Subject: Re: Subject: Midrange List Guidelines
  • From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:14:50 -0500 (CDT)
 
> Just out of curiosity, what is the list owner's basis of a copyright claim?
> The US Constitution and Title 17 of the United States Code provide
> copyrights exclusively to original authors.  Since the list is merely a
> compilation of the works of original authors, and lacks any creative
> expression of its own, how can the list owner claim any rights?

According to my research, compilations are indeed copyrightable
(ref: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#wwp, 3rd paragraph).

david

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