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    Re: Computer generated Almanac
    From: Jared Sherman
    Date: 2003 Sep 8, 21:18 -0400

    George-
     
     My knowledge of copyrights is limited to US law, which of course will be vary 
    different from UK law and "Crown Copyright". I should point out to you that 
    here at least, copyright applies to original material. Design copyright 
    applies to designs, as opposed to content. And simple graphic material (i.e. 
    the layout of a bank check or timesheet) is exempted from copyright since 
    basic graphics is considered to be a matter of public interest and need.
     By example, here you can copyright a typeface--but you cannot copyright the 
    general design of the letters in the alphabet. Copyright law depends partly 
    on statute and partly on court decisions, and I would expect that if someone 
    were to produce a "table of calculations" that copyright could not apply to 
    the simple tabular material, even it were very similar to another table, for 
    the same reasons. On the other hand, photocopying the published tables would 
    of course be a violation. Over there--but not over here. However, since 
    federal publications in the US have a copyright belonging to the people of 
    the United States, I suspect that *I* can copy a US publication, but it would 
    be illegal for you to do so.
    
     Do Her Majesty's almanac tables differ from the USNO versions?
    
    
    

       
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