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Facts and ideas can't be copyrighted, but their expression and structure can.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

This is definitely a copyright violation, and I am shocked and enraged that this was voted so highly on HN and not flagged.

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1. The standard "Recipes and collection of recipes" argument. This is a collection of recipes.

2. I am not shocked that there is a copyright violation. I am shocked that such an egregious violation has been voted so highly on HN. We are all digital workers on HN, and such disregard for digital work is (still) shocking.




Enraged? Your reaction doesn't fit the crime, as is so often the case with copyright.


Expression/structure can be copyrighted, but that's also not the whole story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...

If this document merely lists the keywords in ascending/descending order of popularity, it is unlikely that the author's expression is creative enough to warrant copyright.


It is ill-regard of the system, not disregard of the work.




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