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Subject:Re: ANON: Re: Plagiarism From:"John R. Sullivan" <John_Sullivan -at- STRATUS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:45:41 -0500
Tracy wrote:
A simple list of links is no more "copyrightable" than a simple list
of
street addresses or phone numbers. Any original content (such as
descriptions of the sites) would be protected by copyright, but not
just
a list of facts (which is all a list of URLs is).
I seem to recall reading some time ago that a company that compiled sports
statistics was arguing that their list of game scores etc. was copyrighted.
Isn't that just a list of facts? Does anyone recall any details about this
case? I'm curious as to how much luck they had enforcing their copyright.
