Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, the idea was that you glance at the word list, maybe remove a word >> or two, and then copyright it for yourself. Should take no more than 5 >> minutes. > > No, it doesn't work that way. It would still be freeriding on the > original author's creative choice of which words to include in the > original list.
But isn't the compilation of several wordlists to make one big wordlist a form of creative choice, thereby creating an original copyright-able work? After all, it's possible that a small-ish wordlist is a subset of another unrelated, much larger wordlist. But the larger wordlist wouldn't infringe on the copyright of the small list. > Likewise, a novel does not escape its author's copyright just because > you strike out a couple of sentences at random. What comprises the originality of a novel is more than just the words used. That's not true of a wordlist. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them!
