Re: copyrighting of numbers

In previous posts, there was discussion concerning copyright of numbers in the ADA case. How about this scenario?

A real estate broker enters into a listing agreement with a home seller. The seller, with broker's help, elects to sell the house at $200,000. Listing Broker enters the listing in the local multiple listing service computer database. Is the list price copyrighted (for now, forget about who would own the copyright)?

I am an attorney for the real estate brokerage industry and was recently told that the answer to the question was "yes." Makes no sense to me, however, as I understand that one cannot obtain a copyright of mere facts (the list price), but rather the creative expression of those fact can be copyrighted. How can a price in the above example be creatively expressed?

Russ Cofano
CofanoGroup p.s.
Bellevue WA
russc[_at_]cofanogroup.com Received on Mon Apr 27 1998 - 04:58:59 GMT