On 6/16/98, Brooks Constantine <bconstan[_at_]indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, but what if the editor of the book of sonnets decides that the one
> you took is really NOT an insubstantial part... but that it is somehow
> the heart of the edition... then you can't take it.
If the statute says that one component is *not* an insubstantial part, then I don't see how one can turn around and say, sorry, it really is. Now I suppose one could argue about what "individual item of information" means, and one could claim that in a database of sonnets, a sonnet is too big a piece, that individual item of information really means, say, one *line* of one sonnet. That sounds dubious to me personally but given that this bill hasn't even been enacted yet, let alone interpreted, it's hard to know what a court would decide if it had such a claim before it. At this point, if and when the bill is passed, I'm gonna feel free to grab that one sonnet out of the sonnet database, especially if the one I take is worth less than $10K.
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