Andrew Suffield wrote: >I don't see what's so interesting about the group of things in which >copyright would subsist if the world were different.
Perhaps you've missed the point. I'll try more detail: Whether there exists a valid copyright on a work depends on * aspects intrinsic to the work * aspects extrinsic to the work "copyrightable" is generally used to refer to a work such that all the aspects intrinsic to the work allow there to be a valid copyright on the work, without considering aspects extrinsic to it. One task is to determine whether the aspects intrinsic to the work prevent there from being a valid copyright on it; this can be done with just the work. Determining whether aspects extrinsic to the work prevent there from being a valid copyright on it is a rather different process requiring almost entirely different information. Often people will do the first task and not the second, so they want a word for what they've figured out.
