Re: copyrighting of numbers

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Mark Lemley <mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> 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?

What statute? We (or at least I) am talking about a hypothetical statute protecting databases without regard to their originality. The constitutional authority for such a statute would be the Commerce Clause and/or the treaties clause, if enacted pursuant to a treaty.

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carroll[_at_]tjc.com     |       - Dreamwerks Production Group v. SKG Studio,
Modell delendus est |         case no. 96-55595 (9th Cir. Apr. 21 1998)