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Re: Property RIghts in Keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Fri Feb 13 18:20:45 2009
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
To: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1028365c0902121124sa1d1672w8950b8340b3e509a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:22:07 -0800
On Feb 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Donald Eastlake wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Perry E. Metzger
> <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>>
>> sbg@acw.com writes:
>>> ...
>>
>> There are four kinds of intellectual property. Is it a trade secret?
>> No. Is it a trademark or something allied like trade dress? No. Is it
>> patentable? No. Is it copyrightable? No.
>
> So, depending on how creative the extension fields are :-), or may not
> dependent on that, why isn't it copyrightable?
For the same reason that phone books are not copyrightable. A
certificate is nothing more than a directory entry with frosting and
sprinkles.
Jon
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