copyrightable

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Yes, artistic lighting installations can be copyrightable, and that on the Eiffel Tower is newer than the tower.

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Anything for which one can obtain copyright.

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noun

Anything for which one can obtain copyright.

adjective

(copyright law) Able to be protected by copyright law.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for copyrightable.

noun

Anything for which one can obtain copyright.

adjective

(copyright law) Able to be protected by copyright law.

Example sentences

Yes, artistic lighting installations can be copyrightable, and that on the Eiffel Tower is newer than the tower.

Just using someone else's API with a new paramter isn't an expressive action and clearly isn't copyrightable.

But thanks to recent rulings [1], APIs are still copyrightable and fall under the same license.

It's not clear that this font, as a replication of a work out of copyright, is copyrightable in the US.

If GA hired LN to produce an annotated code, then that means the annotations are owned by Georgia, which means they are public record and not therefore copyrightable.

Those have not been deemed copyrightable as yet, because those don't necessarily require header files.

Feist established that there has to be creativity in something for it to be copyrightable.

Which leaves a loophole then, tourist locations can prevent photography from including it by adding a copyrightable work to a building.

An exhaustive list of data (like the phonebook) is not copyrightable (in the US, though it may be in other countries), but a selective list can potentially be copyrightable based on the selection criteria.

Note that sometimes restoration involves enough creative work to make the result copyrightable even if the original footage was in the public domain.

If the abstract operations are not copyrightable, and there is only one obvious way to write down the API's function prototypes in (e.g.) Java or C, does the source code really carry additional copyrightable value?

If you take a bunch of public domain resources, and organise and classify them, your organisation and taxonomy is copyrightable even if the resources are not.

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"Public record" is different than "copyrightable" which is what the issue is about.

"Progress of Science and useful Arts," has be stretch to an extreme, if porn is copyrightable, too.

For example, Copyright law has what is called the "merger doctrine" which essentially says that if there is only one or maybe a few ways to implement something, then it isn't copyrightable.