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Article #74520Re: The Copyright on the Phone Book
From: Scott Horne
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 04:45
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 04:45
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In article <10925@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
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>Are you sure that this cannot be easily subverted by the introduction
>of bogus names and phone numbers? Map-makers play this game pretty
>often -- by placing a few intentional errors in a map, they can both
>detect copies and (I believe) claim infringment on their "creativity".
This is often said (I've heard it said about the compilers of dictionaries,
too), but does anyone here know of an instance of such "creativity"--or
of a lawsuit which resulted therefrom?
--Scott
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,cd16e7e6844a1612,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-08 22:41:48 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!yale!cs.yale.edu!horne-scott From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: The Copyright on the Phone Book Message-ID: <29928@cs.yale.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 04:45:53 GMT References: <1991Mar30.221841.20189@algor2.algorists.com> <10925@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: jaguar.zoo.cs.yale.edu Originator: horne@jaguar.CS.Yale.Edu