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Old February 28th 06, 02:27 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.misc
Lloyd
 
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Default Electromagnetic Radiation (ripped off from someone else)

On 28 Feb 2006 06:06:12 -0800, N9OGL wrote:
I beg to differ, the courts have ruled a number of times that data, is
not copyrightable. One case comes to mine had to do with a phone book a
telephone company had put out and another company copied it from word
to word and the phone company sued for copyright violation and the
supreme court ruled that general data, no matter how you write it is
not copyrightable.


(*shrug*)

Tables of numbers do not constitute prose. What you ripped off does.
Try to reproduce a college text and distribute it, and see how long
it takes you to be hauled into court by its publisher.



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God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = -@B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t,"
and then there was light.