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HR 3261 and collection copyrightsHR 3261 and collection copyrightsPosted Jan 30, 2004 17:40 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: HR 3261 and collection copyrights by zorgan Parent article: HR 3261 and the ownership of facts Under US copyright law, you cannot have copyright in a collection of facts unless you compile them in some creative order. The standard example case is a phone book. Case law holds that alphabetical order is not creative enough, so you cannot have copyright in a phone book. I'm not familiar with the chess game case, but if you're right, I guess it must pass the order test. The "order" rule gets hard to interpret when computers come into the picture, but the point is that this law would give you something similar to copyright in a phone book database, even though you couldn't have copyright in it.
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