Re: Databases, creativity, and copyright -- what's missing is wrong?

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Karsten M. Self <kmself[_at_]ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> I'm suggesting that it's the missing data, and the lack of errors, in
> a strict compilation, which both provide value,

I'll buy that.

> constitute the unique attribute,

I'll buy that.

> and are the originality of a database.

Nope. Quite simply, the facts, including the correctness of the facts, are not original to the compiler of the database. The facts existed prior to the act of compilation.

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