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To be clear, it has been established by the United States Supreme Court (no less) that the law and judicial decisions cannot be copyrighted.
PAGE C6 PAYING FOR THE LAW No less an authority than the United States Supreme Court has said that the law and judicial decisions cannot be copyrighted, but in the real world, judicial decisions and laws and regulations can be exceedingly hard to find without paying for them, either in book form or online.
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A 1991 Supreme Court decision, Feist v. Rural Telephone Company, affirmed the idea that collections of facts cannot be copyrighted, while also holding that people can copyright the selection, arrangement and presentation of those facts.
Then, lo and behold, I stumbled upon an article about a court decision that so-called "slavish" photos of public domain paintings, which are faithful reproductions of the originals, cannot be copyrighted and are therefore in the public domain as well.
Reality cannot be copyrighted".
Ideas cannot be copyrighted.
Programming languages cannot be copyrighted.
The government says that a word cannot be copyrighted.
Authors' copyrights do not "close off sectors of knowledge," because under United States copyright law, knowledge, ideas and facts cannot be copyrighted.
If he rules that they cannot be copyrighted, damages will be relatively modest.
After the term of protection expires, a work cannot be copyrighted again.
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