Re: simple translation copyright issues

Branden writes: > _Matthew Bender and Hyperlaw v. West_ and _Feist Publications, > Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co._ would indicate "no" (in the > United States), but I don't think there's anything *squarely* on > point. I'm not sure who Hyperlaw is but I'm familiar with West. As I recall, th

simple translation copyright issues

Hi, I worked through a book on medical terminology and one of the studies is roots of medical words, their suffixes and their prefixes. Here are examples: prefixes [part,definition{multiples separated with ;}]: endo,within epi,above, upon ex,out exo,out hyper,excessive;above roots [part, lin

Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data

Branden writes: > United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1: [ ...] > If you have good reason to believe that the data in question was > prepared by the U.S. government, then the material cannot be > copyrighted. > > If you do make such a determination, I would go ahead and target the > package

Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data

Hi Everyone, I have written a program that parses the data available here: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/ and places it into a database. I am fairly confident that the data itself is public domain as: * one organization sells the same data re-packaged for MS Access