Re: This sentence is uncopyrightable (period).

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 08:40, Mike Oliver wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Dailey" <david.dailey[_at_]sru.edu>
> Subject: This sentence is uncopyrightable (period).
>
>
> > Last week in a class on programming, I scribbled the following sentence
> > into a web form I was demonstrating: (long logical analysis omitted)
>
> In Cook v. Robbins, 56 USPQ2d 1769 (CA 9 2000) the words "meter drop" and
> "rolling stock" were held (in the opinion of most commentators, incorrectly)
> to be capable of copyright protection (and indeed, they were held
> infringed).

That's been withdrawn, according to an earlier post on this list: http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2001-01/0130.html

> In CDN Inc. v. Kapes (CA 9) 53 USPQ2d 1032 (1999) the court held that
> prices for coins in a wholesale price guide were copyrighted (distinguishing
> Feist because the prices were not "facts").
>
> In American Dental Association v. Delta Dental Plans Association (CA 7)
> 44 USPQ2d 1296 (1997) the court held that a taxonomy of dental procedures
> and nomenclature, which consists of numbers, short descriptions, and long
> descriptions, is copyrightable subject matter. I believe that the AMA's
> codes (which are numbers or alphanumeric representations) have also been
> held to be copyrighted.

These cases are both collections of short phrases, not individual phrases.

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