Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious because traditionally, copyright has been grounded on the > degree of originality in a work, not the quantity of labor that went > into producing it.
Indeed, but if there is any original content at all, it can be copyrighted. If there was any editorial selection, for example--as is surely the case for any wordlist from a dictionary--then it's copyrightable. But the process itself is mechanistic, so if the original dictionary were to enter the public domain, the word list would go with it.
