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Its the extra value added to the list, often called "collation value". If you take a bunch of public domain resources, and organise and classify them, your orga
by thawkins 11y ago
Its the extra value added to the list, often called "collation value". If you take a bunch of public domain resources, and organise and classify them, your organisation and taxonomy is copyrightable even if the resources are not. It is tne IPR associated with the work you put into it.
- tzs 11y agoIn the US there has to be a certain level of creativity in the selection and organization to copyright a collection of facts. The classic case is the phone book, where there is no creativity in the selection (everyone with a phone in this region) or the organization (alphabetical order), and so no copyright. Feist vs. Rural Telephone is the major case on this. That level of creativity is not very high, but it is above zero. See this comment from a couple weeks ago for more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9887035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9887035
- blantonl 11y agoSee Feist vs. Rural Telephone Company for an example case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... For all intents and purposes it states that factual information by itself cannot be copyrighted.