Re: copyrighting of numbers

Futher to JQ Johnson's <jqj[_at_]darkwing.uoregon.edu> long message:

Two issues in Feist were: the lack of originality in the selection and arrangement of the contents, and the fact that the company was required to make such a listing as condition of doing business. Any creativity in the selection and arrangement of the underlying data in a database would probably protect from wholesale extraction, especially if the extraction was used to create a competing commercial product.

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S. Warwick
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