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Facts are not copyrightableFacts are not copyrightablePosted Feb 16, 2012 19:59 UTC (Thu) by shmget (subscriber, #58347)In reply to: Facts are not copyrightable by Seegras Parent article: Gray areas in software licensing
"These are rules for a language. And there obviously is NO creativity involved, it's just a compilation of facts about the language."
The 'facts' about the languages are not rules. The facts are the observation that a given word is spelled, mostly, at a certain point in time, a certain way, after that people invent 'rules' - usually with 'exceptions' - to codify that...
creating rules out of facts is creative. otherwise no scientific publication would be copyrightable either.
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