Re: NetSol power grab begins in earnest

On 07/10/97, Mark Voorhees <voorhees[_at_]interport.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 09 Jul 1997, Carl Oppedahl <carl[_at_]oppedahl.com> wrote:
> >
> > Virtually everything in this record was authored by someone at America
> > Online. The only things that were not authored by America Online are
> > the legends such as "record created on". Those legends are purely
> > functional and in any event, a successor to NSI could run COM without
> > having to copy the legends.
>
> But, Carl, don't you think Network Solutions will argue that it
> has a compilation copyright?
>
> If I publish a listing of the ten best ski guides to Colorado,
> my list presumably is protected even though I did not author the
> names of the guides, their publishers, or the actual authors.

The editor of the "ten best" list seems to me to be engaged in conduct that differs from NSI's. The editor of "ten best" is selecting from among all possible ski guides, based on some criteria selected by the editor that result in the exercise of creativity to include some and exclude others. In contrast, NSI selects nothing, so far as I can tell. No creativity is exercised at all so far as I am aware.

Can you distinguish NSI's situation from that in Feist?

Carl Oppedahl
<carl[_at_]oppedahl.com> Received on Fri Jul 11 1997 - 14:00:35 GMT