Re: [Fsfe-uk] [OT-ish] Government food data

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 18:18, Philip Hunt wrote:
> I was under the impression that mere facts -- such as the carbohydrate
> values of foods -- were not copyrightable. Am I wrong?

There is copyright on the act of collation, as well as on the items collated 
(even if these are not copyright).  So words cannot be copyrighted, but a 
sequence/selection of words in a dictionary can be, or the sequence of 
meanings given for a particular word, the usage examples given, and so on.  
This is probably a grey area to some extent, but I doubt if anyone wants to 
spend a few years of their lives getting the boundary set out in a court.  
Best therefore to redo from scratch, no matter how galling that is.

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Kevin Donnelly

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