Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA (was: CA certificates)

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Humberto Massa wrote: > Branden, in Brasil, the copyrights law (9610/98) makes databases > copyrighted, IF and only if "their selection, organization, or the > disposition of their content" is a novel intellectual creation. The CDDB, > for example, would not be covered by this definition (its sele

Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA (was: CA certificates)

2004-05-12 Thread Humberto Massa
Branden, in Brasil, the copyrights law (9610/98) makes databases copyrighted, IF and only if "their selection, organization, or the disposition of their content" is a novel intellectual creation. The CDDB, for example, would not be covered by this definition (its selection, organization and disposi

databases not copyrightable in the USA (was: CA certificates)

2004-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:23:40PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > In some countries (USA and Germany?) lists/databases are copyrightable, > even is single data is not! (phone book, games scores and statistics,...) Not in the United States. The controlling Supreme Court precedent is _Feist P