Compile

To compile is to copy from various authors into one work. Between a compilation and an abridgment there is a clear distinction. A compilation consists of selected extracts from different authors; an abridgment is a condensation of the views of one author. Story v. Holcombe, 4 McLean, 306, 314, Fed. Cas. No. 13,497.

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

— Compiled statutes. A collection' of the statutes existing and in force in a given state, all laws and parts of laws relating to each subject-matter being brought together under one head, and the whole arranged systematically in one book, either under an alphabetical arrangement or some other plan of classification. Such a collection of statutes differs from a code in this, that none of the laws so compiled derives any new force or undergoes any modification in its relation to other statutes in pari materia from the fact of the compilation, while a code is a re-enactment of the whole body of the positive law and is to be read and interpreted as one entire and homogeneous whole. Railway Co., v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31 S. E. 531; Black, Interp. Laws, p. 363.

To compile is to copy from various authors into one work. HKetween a compilation and an abridgment there is a clear distinction. A compilation consists of selected extracts from different authors; an abridgment is a condensation of the views of one author. 4 Mc Lean, 306, 314.

To copy from various authors into one work. Implies the exercise of judgment in selecting and combining the extracts.* A compiler may take existing materials from sources common to all writers, and, by arranging them in combination in a new form, give them an application unknown before. Others may use the materials, but not his improvement. The "fair use" which is allowable applies to the materials, not to another's plan and arrangement. ' A compilation made from original sources is a new work. The fact of originality may be proved by another than the author. A compiler is an " author," within the meaning of the Constitution and the copyright laws.. A compilation, which is the result of labor devoted to gathering from original sources and to arranging in convenient form facts ■Mason's Appeal, 70 Pa. 29-30 (1871), cases; 77 id. 227; 75 id. 483; 13 Ves. 73, 287. »See Dorvin v. Wiltz, 11 La. 520 (1856); Stewart D. Hai-per, 16 id. 181 (1861). s 3 Bl. Com. 369. As to moral status, see 19 Am. Law Rev. 343-58 (1885), cases; as to mental status, ib. 583-92 (1885), cases. < 1 Greenl. Ev. § 50; 1 Whart. Ev. §§ 891-411, 418-21 open to be published by any one, is a new work... " Colorable differences " applies to devices intended to cover a literary piracy, n&t to real and substantial differences.! A compilation made from voluminous public documents, and arranged to show readily the date and order of historic events, may be copyrighted. Such publications are valuable sources of information and require labor, care, and some skill in their preparation.'* See further Abridge; Pikacy, 2; Report, 1(2); Review, 3.