Property RIghts in Keys

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Fri Feb 13 17:22:07 EST 2009


On Feb 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Donald Eastlake wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Perry E. Metzger  
> <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
>>
>> sbg at 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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