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Here's an question that should pair up pretty well to the API copyright-ability question. Is the list of words and their order in a dictionary copyrightable?
by emeraldd 10y ago
Here's an question that should pair up pretty well to the API copyright-ability question. Is the list of words and their order in a dictionary copyrightable?
- harryh 10y agoYes.
- emeraldd 10y agoI can see the definitions being copyrightable yes, but I don't see how an alphabetically arranged list of words (just the list) would classify as copyrightable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_in_lists#Arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_in_lists#A... Hence the question ..
- harryh 10y agoHasbro has (somewhat) successfully argued that the list of Scrabble words is copyrightable.