In message of 30 Nov, lists@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Quoting gencmp-request@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm
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> FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO., 499 U.S. 340
(1991)
>
> O'CONNOR, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST,
> C. J., and WHITE, MARSHALL, STEVENS, SCALIA, KENNEDY, and SOUTER, JJ.,
> joined. BLACKMUN, J., concurred in the judgment.
>
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> [18] This inevitably means that the copyright in a factual compilation
> is thin. Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler
> remains free to use the facts contained in an another's publication to
> aid in preparing a competing work, so long as the competing work does
> not feature the same selection and arrangement. As one commentator
> explains it: "No matter how much original author****p the work
> displays, the facts and ideas it exposes are free for the taking . . .
> . The very same facts and ideas may be divorced from the context
> imposed by the author, and restated or reshuffled by second comers,
> even if the author was the first to discover the facts or to propose
> the ideas." Ginsburg 1868.
And for the rest of the world?
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> > Mr. Alciere:
> >
> > Please explain your method of taking copyrighted information without
> > permission from other websites.
> >
> > Brad Hoggatt
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