Re: Give it up, Tom

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I have not seen Alex's site, but it seems to me that if, as you describe, it is
> merely a list of Tru-Vue titles, you have no more copyright ownership than he
> does--like you, he simply reproduced the list from available sources--you used
> your sources, and you just happened to be his. An article or essay of some sort
> would be one matter, but a list of titles that you've compiled from other
> sources yourself strikes me as pretty much public domain material. The border

An aggregation of public domain material is copyrightable.  This was the basis
of Compuserve's archive copyright that was in the news some number of years ago 
when they were protecting (successful I think) it from folk who copied it to produce 
BBS archives.

This is one of the few issues (rights of material authors/owners) which when 
addressed by governments (one of these days), that may be able to "bring the 
internet down" and turn it into a medium playable *only* by those with big lawyer 
staffs.  Along with taxes per byte transferred, etc, etc. :-(

Mike K.


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