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Posted by M. Arthur Auslander on November 08, 1999 at 05:17:18:

In Reply to: copyright of orbital elements? posted by K Wright on November 06, 1999 at 13:07:07:

: According to the Minor Planet Center, collections
: of orbital elements are copyrighted , whereas the
: individual orbital elements are not. This distinction
: is consistent with the usual ruling that it is the
: form of a publication that is copyrightable, not
: the information actually contained in the publication. Do you all agree that an astronomical discovery is not intellectual property. I do not think that anyone would have any objection to educational or scientific use of there discovery, but what about the company that is using this information to fly a space probe to an asteroid and claim it a their corporate property ?
: Is a astronomical discovery intellectual property?
: I do not think that anyone would have any objection
: to educational or scientific use of their discovery,
: but what about the company that is using this
: information to fly a space probe to an asteroid and
: claim it a their corporate property ?
Knowledge may be "intellectual property" in legal sense. The protection is specific to the situtation. The information can be protected as a trade secret if it is secret. If it is not a copyright only protects the mode of expression. Patents can cover what is new, useful and unobvious.
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