[Taxacom] ZooBank reality check: scanning and copyright

[Barry Roth]

My fault for not giving a very apposite example.  The telephone directory is probably more similar to lists of taxonomic names than it is to textual descriptions of taxa, which involve, first, observations, and second, expression of those observations in writing.
   
  Barry Roth

"Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson at mindspring.com> wrote:
  At 03:15 PM 9/7/2006 -0700, Barry Roth wrote:
>The example is sometimes given that the fact of someone's phone number being 
>###-###-#### is not copyrightable, but the telephone directory is.

This example had been valid in some jurisdictions before 1991, but
the Supreme Court eventually ruled that a telephone directory lacked
a sufficient amount of creativity to be copyrightable in Feist
Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).

Stephen Carlson, J.D. 

 		
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