In a message dated 3/10/2006 4:40:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, James_Capobianco@emerson.edu writes: It would be nice if there were a law under which to prosecute companies from making false claims to copyright such as these. I think they do it on purpose so as not to UNDERstate their interest in the databases. There is no question that they do have a compilation copyright to their databases as a whole or lare chunks of it being reproduced, and they may well have a patent on the process that enhanced images--but that would be the extent of what they could control that I can see. Joan