copyright and check lists

[Anita F Cholewa]

I once contacted the US Copyright Office and was told if the checklist (or
database) is nothing more than a compilation then it was not copywritable.
If, however, annotations and comments were added then that changed the
nature of the beast and it was copywritable.

Anita

Curator of Temperate Plants
Bell Museum of Natural History
Univ. of Minnesota
1445 Gortner Ave
St Paul MN 55108