copyright and check lists

[Barry Roth]

Also, was the responder just giving an opinion or personal understanding, or
quoting a regulation (or perhaps case law)?

Barry Roth

--- Paul Kirk <p.kirk at CABI.ORG> wrote:
> This is much too vague a response. There must be some quantitative value for
> it to be possible to implement. For example, if one record out of 1 million
> is annotated is the whole compilation then copyrightable? Or is it 1%, 5%,
> 10%? What is an annotation? Does 'I think this is correct' added to all
> records count as an annotation because this could be added in about 2 seconds
> and hey presto all the records are annotated.
>
> Paul
>
> Dr Paul M. Kirk
> Biosystematist
> CABI Bioscience
> Bakeham Lane
> Egham
> Surrey TW20 9TY
> UK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taxacom Discussion List [mailto:TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Anita F Cholewa
> Sent: 11 May 2005 13:43
> To: TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
> Subject: Re: [TAXACOM] copyright and check lists
>
>
> 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
>



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