Re: License for fortunes?
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On 18-Apr-2001 John Hasler wrote:
> Carlos writes:
>> I believe that, since the quotes are either anonymous or widely-used
>> quotes from celebrities or dead presidents, the thing is legally public
>> domain,...
>
> The individual quotations may be in the public domain but there is a
> compilation copyright on the collection. You'll need to get permission
> before copying it verbatim.
Well, technically, I didn't copy it verbatim, I modified it to suit the
fortunes format. Would that still be copyrighted?
Quite frankly, this (copyright over a compilation) is somewhat dumb (in this
case, at least).
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