Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Suffield wrote: >I don't see what's so interesting about the group of things in which >copyright would subsist if the world were different. Perhaps you've missed the point. I'll try more detail: Whether there exists a valid copyright on a work depends on * aspects intrinsic to the work *

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:33:47PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > > > > The proper terms for what you describe here are "copyright does not > > subsist in this work", where the verb is "subsist" (alt

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > The proper terms for what you describe here are "copyright does not > subsist in this work", where the verb is "subsist" (alternatively > "copyright protection does not subsist", but even lawyers don't > u

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 00:16 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > > "Humberto Massa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In another topic, I prefer the term "copyrighted". "Copyrightable" is > > > an ugly, ugly term... and everything t

Re: copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > "Humberto Massa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In another topic, I prefer the term "copyrighted". "Copyrightable" is > > an ugly, ugly term... and everything that is copyrightable is > > copyrighted by default... > > I see a fi

copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-12 Thread Martin Dickopp
"Humberto Massa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In another topic, I prefer the term "copyrighted". "Copyrightable" is > an ugly, ugly term... and everything that is copyrightable is > copyrighted by default... I see a fine distinction between the two terms. For example, a work created by the U.S.