On Feb 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Donald Eastlake wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Perry E. Metzger
<pe...@piermont.com> wrote:
s...@acw.com writes:
...
There are four kinds of intellectual property. Is it a trade secret?
No. Is it a trademark or something allied like trade dress? No. Is it
patentable? No. Is it copyrightable? No.
So, depending on how creative the extension fields are :-), or may not
dependent on that, why isn't it copyrightable?
For the same reason that phone books are not copyrightable. A
certificate is nothing more than a directory entry with frosting and
sprinkles.
Jon
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