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:memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion
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How is this copyrightable? #169

Open rsterbal opened 1 year ago

rsterbal commented 1 year ago

Great work here but how is this list copyrightable?

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#:~:text=A%20mere%20listing%20of%20ingredients,a%20basis%20for%20copyright%20protection.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10670/copyrightablity-of-word-lists#:~:text=Under%20US%20law%2C%20a%20list,original%20content%2C%20cannot%20be%20copyrighted.

nelsonic commented 1 year ago

Hi @rsterbal a list of words is not really copyrightable ... If there were definitions attached then it could be copyrightable.