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Neat, this is like a reverse shibboleth. This sort of stuff has been around for a while. One of the big Supreme Court rulings on the copyrightability of datase
by karzeem 16y ago
Neat, this is like a reverse shibboleth.
This sort of stuff has been around for a while. One of the big Supreme Court rulings on the copyrightability of datasets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural) concerned a company that got sued for copying 4000 entries from a competitor's phone book. They got busted because they'd unknowingly copied fake entries.
- jsm386 16y agoI wouldn't call it getting busted. The court held that they were allowed to copy the data, overturning the sweat of the brow doctrine: The Court ruled that information contained in Rural's phone directory was not copyrightable, and that therefore no infringement existed. Prior to this case, the substance of copyright in United States law followed the sweat of the brow doctrine, which gave copyright to anyone who invested significant amount of time and energy into their work. At trial and appeal level the courts followed this doctrine, siding with Rural.
- randallsquared 16y agoThe phrase "got busted" can mean merely "was discovered".
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThis is a term that can lead to mis-communication. Most of the context I know the term "got busted" implies punishment. The exact usage and implications vary from place to place, often varying by very large amounts, so care is required in the usage of such informal terms.
- karzeem 16y agoThat's how I meant it.