[LEAPSECS] Olsen database taken offline

[Dennis Ferguson]

On 6 Oct, 2011, at 15:34 , Warner Losh wrote:


> The issue, in a nutshell, is that the Olsen database took facts from a book, transformed them in format and placed them into electronic form.


That might be what happened, but that doesn't seem to be the issue in the
lawsuit.  The plaintiff claims to have been assigned the copyright of "certain
copyright-protected computer software programs and information contained therein
[…] known as the “ACS Atlas”".  They claim that Olson and Eggert have "unlawfully
reproduced" their copyrighted software.  They don't mention a book at all.

This seems wrong in ways too numerous to mention, but you can sue just about
anyone for just about anything for the price of hiring a lawyer and how these
things come out can be surprising often enough to maybe make it worth taking a
shot at it.

Dennis Ferguson