Copyright----- Oneword ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Cemetery > In a message dated 9/22/2006 11:44:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > It comes down to “ownership” of the information. Do you own the > information? > <snip> > > > The term “publish” is when you put a book on to the market. It does not > mean copy righted. Most books that are published are copy righted. If > the > information in the book or CD is from the public domain the information > is not > owned by the author and is available to be copied. > > Scott in Cleveland > > > > Scott- > > Actually copyright comes down to the issue of "did you create it and does > it > meet the test of originality?" You don't create facts so you can't > copyright facts--you may have discovered them but you didn't create them. > However, > if facts are presented in an original format the formatting might meet > the > test of originality. Also, you can't just take an entire book and scan > it/reproduce it without violating the copyright on the the book as a > collection/database. > > "How is copyright created and protected? A copyright is automatically > comes > into existence the moment an author fixes her words n some tangible > form--for instance, the moment a book or article is type, handwritten or > dictated." > "So long as copies of a work are made available to the public, the work > is > "published" for copyright purposes even if no copies are actually sold or > otherwise distributed." From the Copyright Handbook by Stephen Fishman. > > Joan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006