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HR 3261 and the ownership of facts

HR 3261 and the ownership of facts

Posted Jan 29, 2004 15:30 UTC (Thu) by kfiles (subscriber, #11628)
In reply to: HR 3261 and the ownership of facts by beejaybee
Parent article: HR 3261 and the ownership of facts

    I wonder which of the US-based megacorporations is funding the current attempt to pervert this into yet another way of restricting competition and so increasing their profits.

Think of the big directory companies: Thompson, West Group (WestLaw), and Reed Elsevier (Lexis-Nexis).

--kirby


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