[free-sklyarov] _Alice_ read aloud

Seth Johnson seth.johnson at RealMeasures.dyndns.org
Mon Sep 3 17:11:28 PDT 2001


I hope you're intending to amplify my point -- that's what I was saying!
:-)

Seth Johnson
Committee for Independent Technology

"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> 
> As was pointed out on CNI-Copyright, Feist was a unanimous decision:
> the court utterly, completely, and without dissent, dismissed the "sweat
> of the brow" argument.
> 
> on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:29:30AM -0400, Seth Johnson (seth.johnson at RealMeasures.dyndns.org) wrote:
> >
> > Yep.  The copyright inheres in the originality evidenced by the
> > selection and arrangement of its elements, not in the elements
> > themselves.
> >
> > Plus, since Feist Publications, it's irrelevant whether Mr. Maden put
> > in more work than Lewis Carroll.  There is no "sweat of the brow"
> > doctrine.





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