HR 3261 and the ownership of facts
Posted Jan 29, 2004 22:26 UTC (Thu) by
hingo (subscriber, #14792)
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HR 3261 and the ownership of facts by ekj
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HR 3261 and the ownership of facts
Me too...
Having lived under a similar law in Europe, I was kind of surprised to see LWN writing
about this. To me the law about database copyright is mostly something that limits the
time of
those copyrights to much less than for other works. Not a bad thing IMHO.
It's not the copyright laws that are the problem you know. Indefinately extending the time
of protection, DMCA & EUCD, software patents, etcetc... those are the bad things.
Remember that also the GPL relies on copyright law.
That being said, we obviously won't be surprised when SCO or some other US company
finds a way to pervert this law. But that is not the fault of the law, see my comment
below...
It's somewhat unclear what "a large number" and "a quantitatively substantial part of"
Not being a lawyer, I've always taught it means copying practically everything. As has
been said, the facts in the database do not become copyrighted, only the database as a
(at least almost) whole.
henrik
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