8th April 2011, 03:04 PM
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Shadow jack can you explain why you don’t think that a context sheet is copyright material?
Under the act, short phrases, names, descriptive terms are not generally concidered unique or substantial enough to be covered.
But it is an interesting area - each context record is (or should be) a unique record (literary piece of work?) which can be seen with others to form a database - which under the act:
Databases
(1)In this Part “database” means a collection of independent works, data or other materials which—
(a)are arranged in a systematic or methodical way, and
(b)are individually accessible by electronic or other means.
(2)For the purposes of this Part a literary work consisting of a database is original if, and only if, by reason of the selection or arrangement of the contents of the database the database constitutes the author’s own intellectual creation
But.....are context records the author's own intellectual creation - or a record of imperical observations?
:face-huh:
ShadowJack