Humberto Massa wrote: > Branden, in Brasil, the copyrights law (9610/98) makes databases > copyrighted, IF and only if "their selection, organization, or the > disposition of their content" is a novel intellectual creation. The CDDB, > for example, would not be covered by this definition (its selection, > organization and disposition content are automatically-generated). CA > certificates (the original topic) aren't covered either because they are > not novel intellectual creations (they also are automatically-generated). > > In another topic, I prefer the term "copyrighted". "Copyrightable" is an > ugly, ugly term... and everything that is copyrightable is copyrighted by > default...
Well, except for those works for which copyright has expired or for which it has been renounced? This wasn't always the case, anyway; it used to be that you had to *do* something to claim copyright on a published work. That was a better system. :-/ -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
