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Originally Posted by Rich Klein
For keeping a card that "does not exist" in a printed tome.
is that if you suspect someone is "stealing" your data; having a false entry in your book or data base can be proved in a court of law. For years it was believe Who's Who in America always printed a few false biographies each year to find out exactly who might be interested in stealing their data.
Regards
Rich
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A wonderful theory except...checklists--which are by definition pure compilations of pre-existing data--cannot be copyrighted. The copyright in a compilation or derivative work 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. If you were to publish a wrong checklist and someone used it, you could prove he used it but not get anything else, because you don't own the checklist. Though I guess you would own the mistake...