Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If the other person's word list is protected by copyright, and you > > used that as a basis for your dictionary, you're making a > > derived work. > > That doesn't automatically follow. You're begging the question.
I'm sorry? The definition of derived work is a work that is a modified/extended version of another work. If I take your word list and add my own words to the end, that's a derived work. The criterion basically is that there is some recognizable part of the other work in the derived work. This may be very hard to prove in the case of word lists. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, (almost) Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/
