Re: Compilation - Char Coats-Siercks
Subject: Re: Compilation
From: Char Coats-Siercks
Date: November 12, 1998

Steve...Feist is the US case on this and the West case just came down in 
May of 1998...the court cases dealing with this require something 
unique...just copying a phone book is not a violation of a 
copyright...and data bases are not covered by the new law that was 
passed...that paragraph was taken out...:(  Nor does the section you 
quote deal with public records....they are not original....nor is 
listing data from them original....you cannot copyright that which is 
already in the public domain...Charlotte

----Original Message Follows----
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:53:35 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Compilation
To: [email protected]

A "compilation" is a work formed by the collection and assembling of 
preexisting
materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such 
a way
that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of 
authorship.
The term "compilation" includes collective works. 

U.S. Copyright Office
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20559-6000

[email protected]
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/title17/1-101.html
11/10/98

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