Jon Phillips wrote: > Yes, this is a similar situation to pantone colors. They slap names > onto some mixtures and package the collections, but it is dubious if > the mixture numbers themselves are under copyright, since factual data > (aka phonebooks) is not copyrightable.
Hm... bad example. At least in Germany, phone books are protected as databases (german) (BGH, Aktenzeichen I ZR 199/96, I ZR 210/96, I ZR 211/96, I ZR 5/97). http://bundesrecht.juris.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJNR012730965BJNG004301377 HTH, Michael -- GIMP > http://www.gimp.org | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Wiki > http://wiki.gimp.org | .de: http://gimpforum.de Plug-ins > http://registry.gimp.org | _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
