RE: Copyright [was RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released]

["Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>]

Yes, Michael, but if I publish a book of numbers in the US and call it "The
Yellow Pages" I would have a fight on my hands.  Consider the name of the
book as the TLD, with addresses within.

Gene...

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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:51 AM
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Cc: Joe Baptista; Steven Heath
Subject: Copyright [was RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released]


I seriously doubt that US law would find a copyright interest in a TLD
database, as it doesn't find it in the phone book.

I am unaware of any published decisions relating to TLD databases
elsewhere, and would welcome references to them.  Other countries are more
friendly to a claim of 'compilation copyright' so it's certainly possible
that such decisions exist.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Joe Baptista wrote:

>
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Steven Heath wrote:
>
> > What right did these companies have to operate their own TLD's and/or
> > alternative root(s)?
> >
> > None.
>
> TLD databases are covered by copyright law ... we've defended in the past
> successfully - and we will defend again if necessary.
>
> regards
> joe baptista
>
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