RE: [syndication] Re: Copyright and Syndication

["David Galbraith" <david@moreover.com>]

We could never claim to "own" Accounting news (as if anyone would want to) -
but the rules that produce these categories and the systems that produces
rules by learning from human editorial input are quite complex - honest!
Dave

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephen.downes@ualberta.ca [mailto:stephen.downes@ualberta.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:49 PM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: [syndication] Re: Copyright and Syndication
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> --- In syndication@egroups.com, Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...>
> > So it could be claimed that
> Moreover's
> > categorization and collection of newsfeeds could be considered
> creative
> > enough to pass the test of originality. Of course, that would be a
> question
> > for the courts and would depend on the level of categorization that
> Moreover
> > does.
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> Hm. Here is Moreover's top level categorization:
>      Consumer
>      Dow Jones 30
>      Finance
>      General
>      Industry
>      Internet
>      Regional
>      Sports & Culture
>      Technology
> That doesn't meet any criteria I can think of for originality. And
> check out their lower-level classifications...
>   Africa news
>   Argentina news
>   Asia-Pacific latest
>   Australia news
>   Austria news
>   Balkans news
>   Benelux news
>   Brazil news... and so on...
> Surely we won't grant to Moreover the exclusive right to classify
> news
> by geographic region, sorted alphabetically... right?
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