Klarinet Archive - Posting 000927.txt from 1999/11

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] More Copyright Pointyheadedness
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:55:19 -0500

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] More Copyright Pointyheadedness

>... A good example of
> a derivative work is how we all did geography reports in grade school --
> paraphrasing what we read in the encyclopedia. Theoretically, the report
is
> a copyright violation as a derivative work of the encyclopedia -- while
not
> a word-for-word "copy," it is just as clear a "borrowing" of the
> intellectual property.

It is my understanding that *data* cannot be copyrighted, only what is said
about the data and how it is said. Otherwise we couldn't even give a
composer's birth and death dates without getting the permission of the
copyright holder of the book in which we read it. If you did that report
correctly, you would have gotten facts from the enclopedia, almanac or
whatever but would have written the report yourself based on the facts. My
teachers were always pretty clear that you were not supposed to paraphrase
existing works but only use the data to create your own report. Though I
suppose some teachers are not so particular, we would have gotten a failing
grade if they believed that it was merely a paraphrase of an encyclopedia
article.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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