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- noun The condition of being
copyrightable .
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Examples
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Roth Greeting Cards: 2 or 3 decisions was enough for copyrightability; here there are thousands, and still Posner rules that there is no copyright.
IPSC: daily double--theory Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Roth Greeting Cards: 2 or 3 decisions was enough for copyrightability; here there are thousands, and still Posner rules that there is no copyright.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Even if accurate reproductions require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, the key element for copyrightability under U.S. law is that copyrighted material must show sufficient originality.
Google Vs Amazon Book Wars – Public Domain Books « Kindle Review – Kindle 3 Review, iPad Review 2009
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On the same site he's referencing (typeright. org via about. com), you'll find another article about a US District Court judge affirming the copyrightability of font outlines.
Boing Boing: December 5, 2004 - December 11, 2004 Archives 2004
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In the past, courts looked to the Constitution mainly to analyze substantive copyright law related to copyrightability e.g., what are “writings”?
Marybeth Peters on Constitutional Challenges to Copyright Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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Mr. Griffin's claims about typeface copyrightability are an extreme oversimplification of a very contentious issue.
Boing Boing: December 5, 2004 - December 11, 2004 Archives 2004
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Among the issues, which also include the copyrightability of certain styles, is the fraught question of who is an author when the person whose name is on a work does not execute the work, and indeed leaves many decisions up to the person performing the physical acts of creation.
Glass half empty, authorship all there Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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A recording of a preexisting transmission does not have the requisite originality for copyrightability.
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I would think so, given that it does for purposes of the copyrightability of compilation works.
Orphan works (and Google Book Search) Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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If a number is produced by the exercise of skill and judgment -- determining, for example, how to aggregate cars to determine an average price for a certain make and model in a certain geographic area -- then a claim of copyrightability passes the laugh test, even though copyright isn't supposed to exist for words and short phrases.
Archive 2004-12-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2004
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