Re: comercial site request to use FAQ

Terry Carroll (carroll@tjc.com)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:39:56 -0800 (PST)

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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

> The legal precedents are the following:
>
> - a compilation is copyrightable (value added by creation of composite)
> - a catalog is not (strictly derivative)

A catalog is copyrightable. The fact that it's derivative is not
material. Section 103 of the (U.S.) copyright act provides for copyrights
in compilations and derivative works.

> I am not a lawyer.

I am. :-)

Terry Carroll
sometime keeper of the Copyright FAQ
(http://www.aimnet.com/~carroll/copyright/faq-home.html).

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