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Subject: Re: egtb and selling.. licensing issues. {More complete versions}

Author: David H. McClain

Date: 20:48:59 02/01/06

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On February 01, 2006 at 20:52:47, Greg Simpson wrote:

>The access code is certainly subject to copyright, since there are many ways to
>express the ideas.  It is not so clear for the data files.  Perhaps the encoding
>method could make them subject to copyright, or it might be patented.  I think
>the uncompressed files would not be copyrightable, the same way raw address
>lists aren't.  I'm still not a lawyer

Greg

Yes, the EGTBs you are referring to are "facts."  However, the authors took
those facts and presented them in their own intellectual format.  You cannot
sell them without their permission.

Anyone is free to compile EGTBs in another format in any way they choose.  The
facts don't become their property, but how they are presented is.  DHM





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