Re: copyrighting of numbers

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Mark Lemley <mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can't comment on whether I agree with those cases without reading
> > them. I suspect that they were applying copyright law, in which
> > case, the holding is likely to be as to the effect of the particular
> > statute, not whether the works themselves were within the
> > constitutional scope of the clause.
>
> Terry, is your argument that databases are covered by the statute,
> but *not* covered by the constitutional clause? If so, where is the
> constitutional authority for the statute?

My argument was that I needed to see what cases you're talking about and read them before I could say whether I agreed with them or not.

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