I thought the text of the cases was authored by judges. There is not
copyright in the text of cases. FLITE had the absolute right to key in
the text of the cases without West permission and without giving back the
keyed in text to West. Do you disagree?
Alan D. Sugarman
President
HyperLaw, Inc. ®
Publisher of Federal Appeals on Disc tm CD-ROM
sugarman@hyperlaw.com
212-787-2812
212-496-4138 (fax)
On Tue, 4 Apr 1995 BLSJDRP@delphi.com wrote:
> I must say that I disagree with Jamie Love's assessment
> that the Air Force created the FLITE database. True,
> they converted it into electronic format (which was
> obviously an expensive and labor-intensive process),
> but West "created " the database in that they're the
> ones who gathered the cases together, gave thenmm headnotes,
> etc.
>
> As we learned in library school, a database doesn't have
> to be computerized.
>
> Now, back to our regularly scheduled public relations war.
>
> Brian Smith
> Librarian
> Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
> Chicago
> blsjdrp@delphi.com
>
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