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compilation

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Definitions from Case Law

From 603 U.S. 707 - Moody v. NetChoice, LLC Revisions: 7/11/24 · 2024Most cited · 37 citing opinions

any effort to present the expression of others in some sort of organized package.

United States Code

17 U.S.C. § 101 — in this title

A “compilation” is a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term “compilation” includes collective works.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A literary production, composed of the works of others, and arranged in a methodical manner. When a compilation requires in its execution taste, learning, discrimination, and intellectual labor, it is an object of copyright: as, for example, Bacon's Abridgment. Curtis, Copyright, 186.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A literary production composed of the works of others and arranged in a methodical manner. A compilation requiring, in its execution, taste, learning, discrimination, and intellectual labor, is an object of copyright {q. v.); as, for example, Bacon's Abridgment Curtis, Copyr. 186. A compilation consists of selected extracts from different authors; an abridgment is a condensation of the views of an author; Story v. llolcombe, 4 Mc Lean 314, Fed. Cas. No. 13,497.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A literary production, composed of the works of others and arranged in a methodical manner.

Defined under Compile in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

A collection of parts of a book or books into a separate work.