Re: [CP-Legal] ZDNET: "Hackers settle Cyber Patrol suit"
At 06:01 PM 03/28/2000 -0500, Mike Godwin wrote:
>Mac writes:
>
>>Well, decidedly thin some selection and categorization beyond
>>alphabetizing went into it, so there's more than in Feist.
>
>I don't dispute that CyberPatrol may have generated copyrightable
>expression in creating its program. Of course it may have.
>
>But the fact of what is blocked is not copyrightable. It's just a
>list, and no deeper a list than the list of names in Feist.
There is a missing fact here, that the CyberNOT list is not just a list of
what is blocked, the list itself includes the blocking categories assigned
by the humans^H^H^H^H^H^H machines working for the company. If you have
the list, you need no more to know whether, at the moment in time you got
the list, abc.org is banned as FullNude, SexActs, PartNude, Intol, any, all
or other.
If the blocking categories were kept separate from the list, that would be
another story, but it might be wise if this discussion addressed the actual
facts.
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