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| Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 10:03 AM EDT |
Yes, under copyright law there is and you all hid it from me. I hate you all!
I guess (literally) that a compilation is a synonym for anthology as in 'poetry
anthology'. The organisation and selection of the poems is protected.
A collection is as in 'art collection'. The order is not important, just the
selection. That is interesting because it suggests that a registration of a Java
collection would not protect the organisation of the API library packages
enumerated in the registration.
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Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 04:28 PM EDT |
| No! :)
There is no such thing as a "collection" as an independent
concept in copyright law: there are only "compilations" and "collective works"
(which are a kind of compilation).
Here are the definitions from USC. Ch
17:
A "compilation" is a work formed by the collection and assembling of
preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in
such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of
authorship. The term "compilation" includes collective works.
A "collective
work" is a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia, in
which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in
themselves, are assembled into a collective whole.
Now that that's been
settled, maybe we can convince Mr. Ian Al (whose ideas about copyright law just
seem to get more and more strange as this case goes on) that there is no such
thing as an (or multiple) SSO(s) in a work - there is only the SSO of
the work, and it's always structure, sequence, and organization
(all technically synonymous for copyright purposes) if it's a (singular)
computer program. Also, the selection, coordination, and
arrangement is protected in a compilation if it is
original.
Sorry to pick on you Mr. Al - you were simply a handy example.
;)
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