On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 05:40 US/Eastern, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
Everything else has to be made by human and have a minimal artistic height. (I was told this non-sense was introduced to get the USA sign some international treaties about copyright protection).
Not sure if that is true, but I can confirm that to get copyright protection in the US, there has to be a creative aspect to the work. It's actually required by our Constitution. I'm not online at the moment, but I think there is a citation in Feist.