Compilation
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Section 101 of the 1976 Copyright Act defines the term compilation as:
- a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term "compilation" includes collective works."
A compilation “results from a process of selecting, bringing together, organizing, and arranging previously existing material of all kinds, regardless of whether the individual items in the material have been or ever could have been subject to copyright.” [1] Directories, databases, magazines and anthologies are types of compilations.
- The copyright in a compilation . . . extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material. The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.[2]
[edit] References
- ↑ M. Kramer Mfg. Co. v. Andrews, 783 F.2d 421, 437 n.16 (4th Cir. 1986) (citation omitted).
- ↑ 17 U.S.C. §103(b).
