Re: copyright under U.S. and Spanish law

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Colin Seeger <seeger[_at_]ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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> Similarly, the ABC here made specially treated, digitised copies of
> public domain 78's and acquired a new copyright in the sound recordings
> because they improved the sonics -- removing the hiss etc.

Quite true, but here they did some "creative" work, and ofcourse, it doesn't change the public domain status of the original, to which I can still do exactly the same, without looking at the ABC remastered stuff, and come up with something virtually indistinguisable (without special tools, that is) making the claim of "creativity" dubious, because the change you get something the same out of a creative process is virtually zero.

> By analogy, the same could apply to a microfich. I think. Maybe.

Maybe, but that would still not change the PD status of the texts thus microfilmed, and I can still enter it in a database, and use it freely.

Jeroen.

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Fri Oct 08 1999 - 20:24:46 GMT