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Remember, they can't copyright facts, no matter how much sweat of the brow it took to compile those facts. Recall Feist v Rural, wherein someone made another p
by lsb 16y ago
Remember, they can't copyright facts, no matter how much sweat of the brow it took to compile those facts. Recall Feist v Rural, wherein someone made another phone book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...
- nailer 16y agoDepends on the country - but yes for the US you're OK.
- dotBen 16y agoIn US this is true, in UK it isn't. A great case is the UK Post Code system (which is much more specific than the US zip code system here - no more than 15 letter-boxes share a unique post code in UK). A number of people have created Post Code to lat/long conversion tables. They're all facts but because they have been worked out they are copyrightable. To stop copying the providers introduce slight variances in the data to track duplication and usually jump on top of it. I don't believe that would fly here in the USA
- aristus 16y agoSo... buy a copy of all of then and throw away the diffs? :D
- macca321 16y agobuying them all would defeat the purpose
- notahacker 16y agoAn even more unusual UK example would be the "copyright" claimed over the football fixture lists you'll find on any popular sport site - they're supposed to pay a large licensing fee to a company called Football Dataco even if they source the data independently.
- notahacker 16y agoAn even more unusual UK example would be the "copyright" claimed over the football fixture lists you'll find on any popular sport site - they're supposed to pay a large licensing fee to a company called Football Dataco even if they source the data independently.