Re: copyrighting of numbers

In message <355C98F3.FFC14200[_at_]sprynet.com>, Shelly Warwick <swarwick[_at_]sprynet.com> writes
>
>Some thoughts propted by the Lemely/Carroll exchange.
>
>It seems to me that one of the problems with database protection
>is database producers wanting to have their cake and eat it too. .
>.i.e. copyright protection and database protection. If a database
>was just given database protection (whatever what will turn out to
>be) and not copyright protection there would be a stronger
>argument for saying database are not writing covered by copyright
>so can be covered by something else. But if database creators
>also want copyright protection it seems harder to argue that
>databases are not writing under the meaning of the copyright
>clause and therefore entitled to some other protection.

I am usually a bit reticent at contributing but ...

I publish a 'law-index' Each entry contains a ratio for the case. That ratio is clearly copyrightable and mine.

The database also includes many elements which 'just facts' - a compilation of which clearly has some additional value.

I do not see why I cannot have protection for both.

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