weighing in on important legal issues of our day
Posted January 18, 2006 07:27 PM
The Supreme Court claims "that facts are not copyrightable" (Feist), but that compilations of facts may be.
However, I will argue that if the facts at issue are Chuck Norris Facts then each individual fact is indeed copyrightable and each author should be able to make a claim of ownership, and neither chucknorrisfacts.com or www.4q.cc/chuck may make a legit claim of ownership to each fact unless they receive a copyright release or license from each owner.
Disclaimer: The facts about Chuck Norris Facts are open to debate and as such this information is provided with the understanding gleaned from reader comments in two http://www.boingboing.net/ posts. Please note that the basis for my argument is that the Chuck Norris Facts aren't actually true facts but rather made up facts. Finally, please note that this is an attempt at humor and should not be considered actual legal advice.