Re: Couple of questions...

From: Charles McGarry <cmcgarry[_at_]ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 22:23:23 -0700

You wrote: 

>

> I've got a couple of questions that someone can hopefully answer:
> 1) Can numbers be copyrighted (ex.: is using data (such as dimensions,
> engine's name, power, max. speed, etc.) from the encyclopedia or manual
> without permission of the printers of the encyclopedia legal a copyright
> violation?). I hope not because otherwise I would be confused - how can
> one copyright the size of the car or how many horsepower in produces.

If an idea can be expressed in only one way, then that expression is not copyrightable (no originality).

> 2) If I take a photograph and make a drawing off it, do I own all rights
> to the drawing or do the rights still belong to the author of the
> photograph?

You're admitting to copying the work. Even if the copy is inperfect (perhaps, even, wildly divergent) it is the copying that is prohibited; it would be a derivative work.

Charles McGarry
<cmcgarry[_at_]ix.netcom.com> Received on Fri Oct 13 1995 - 05:23:24 GMT

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