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Common spellings are in the public domain.. that doesnt mean you can aquire them through a copyrighted source.
What I cant do is take a dictionary copyrighted in 2023, and scrape it and pull out all the spellings... In fact what i also cant do is take a 1807 dictionary and a 2023, scrape them both and only use entries that overlap between the two... Since i used a copyrighted dictionary, 2023 to compile that information it would be in violation, even if the data extracted is from the public domain.
The reasoning is simple, the dictionary **isnt** copyrighting the words themselves, it is copyrighting its curation.. They assemble experts who review old dictionaries and update them, their research into what word is or isnt still a word and what spellings are valid is what is copyrighted, not the actual word itself.
Think of it like this, imagine I wrote a book that was nothing more than a copyrighted list of names of public domain works. Just because the titles and works are in the public domain doesnt mean my list and efforts to make a compilation are in the public domain, it isnt.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 /
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2023-09-27 18:38:49
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