Re: Re: music playlists

They aren't, even when evaluated on a case by case basis (hence the word "copyrightable")?

See, e.g., <http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html>.

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recipes are not copyrightable. collections of them are.

On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 04:05 PM, LKim[_at_]cohenlaw.com wrote:

> I would analogize play lists as being similar to recipes.
> Recipes
> are copyrightable as compilations. Nimmer makes reference to this,
> but the
> copyright is thin. Here, the play lists are being copied without
> authorization and, to the extent that they are copied as a whole, this
> raises a good question of whether verbatim copyright infringement has
> been
> committed and the thickness of the protection of said copyright.
> [106(1)
> being the right to reproduce and authorize the making of copies --
> separate
> and apart from 106(3) -- the right to distribute and authorize the
> distribution of said copies (this would include "publishing"/making
> available to the public)).]
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> Lee Kim, Esq.
> Patent Agent

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