A United States federal court found that copyright traps are not
themselves protectable by copyright. There, the court
stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts
and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one
could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of
reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright . . .
. If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or
widely disseminated." (Id. at 733)
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