Re: [xml-dev] Re: ***SPAM*** [xml-dev] Re: Judge XML Schema is aliterary

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 5:00 PM Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org> wrote:

> On the relational algebra question - i think "database" is a very
> loosely applied term and courts have no business going anywhere near
> it, but i accept that sometimes they need to.

A "database" in the intellectual property sense is any collection of
uncopyrightable things that have been selected and organized in some
way that doesn't suffice to establish a compilation copyright.
Something as simple as a handwritten alphabetical list of all the
words in the King James Version is a database in this sense.  The EU
makes databases protectable, but Canada and the U.S. do not.