On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:52:15PM -0400, Chloe Hoffman wrote:
> Also, note that at least Australia and England extend copyright protection 
> to "industrious collections" (i.e., 'sweat of the brow' databases such as 
> white pages).

Has anyone bothered to copyright large prime numbers discovered by
computers?  How about long checksums, laboriously calculated?

/me cannot wait for the first copyright infringment via hash collision
court case

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