<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Matt Amos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM, John Smith <<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 10 August 2010 07:25, Matt Amos <<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> they do. and it's in the contributor terms: "ODbL 1.0 for the database<br>
>> and DbCL 1.0 for the individual contents of the database". the<br>
>> database is attribution and share-alike. the contents, as facts, hold<br>
>> no copyright - so copyright law can't be used to enforce attribution<br>
><br>
> But the contents aren't just facts, especially when it comes to<br>
> subjective tags like smoothness...<br>
<br>
</div>it's great that you think that, but many lawyers think otherwise. in<br>
any case, they'll be just facts if someone strips the smoothness tags<br>
out.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Lawyers can think what they like, it's the judges that make the decisions.<br><br>While pure facts have been judged not to be copyrightable, it requires only a tiny amount of creativity to permit them to become copyrightable. <br>
<br>Most of the cases you are probably familiar with involve simple lists of telephone numbers and subscribers. The moment you add even the slightest originality to a collection of facts then it become eligible for copyright.<br>
<br>Matt, you really do need to read up on case law about the minimum threshold for copyrightability.<br><br>80n<br><br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
wouldn't you prefer to protect the *whole* database?<br>
<br>
i'm not saying this for your benefit, by the way. it seems pretty<br>
obvious you've made up your mind and aren't going to change it in the<br>
face of reasoned argument or factual counterpoint.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
matt<br>
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