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

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

actually, there are competing yellow pages delivered to my house.  could
be a generic term?  (One goes by the trademarked term "the _Real_ Yellow
Pages")

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Gene Marsh wrote:

> 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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> 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
> >
> > Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god
> >
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