Can you own a list?

By Kristoffer Bohmann, Bohmann Usability

Two years ago Amazon.com and New York Times had a legal dispute about Amazon's unauthorized use of the NY Times bestseller list. NY Times required Amazon to license the list since the Amazon bookstore was devoting an entire section for the list.

A few months ago I looked for update information without finding anything. Now it turns out that the case has been resolved: Amazon uses the list and provides NY Times with sales figures in return.

Read more: NY Times bestseller list on Amazon.com.

Kristoffer Bohmann

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