No "sweat?" Copyright and other protection of works of information after Feist v. Rural Telephone

Article Abstract:

The Supreme Court in Feist Publications Inc v Rural Telephone Service Co applied a standard of creative originality in determining that telephone directories could not be copyrighted. The court rejected previous 'sweat of the brow' standards that had been applied to unoriginal works. This decision threatens to remove copyright protection from other compilations of information, such as electronic databases. A federal statute should be enacted to afford some degree of protection, such as protection against for-profit use in another compilation.

Analysis, Cases, Information services, Creativity, Information services industry, Telephone directories, Originality

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Putting cars on the "information superhighway": authors, exploiters, and copyright in cyberspace

Article Abstract:

Collective copyright licensing may contribute to addressing the challenges to authorship rights posed by increased user access to information in the digital realm. Collective licensing may appear to restrict author control, but some feel that data encryption may actually increase control. It continues to be necessary to compensate authors to promote the production of creative works and promote the dissemination of information.

Innovations, Copyright licenses, Copyright licensing, Copyright infringement, international

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Copyright and control over new technologies of dissemination

Article Abstract:

The author examines the issue of copyright control as it is affected by new methods of disseminating works, particularly the Internet.

United States

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