On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:06:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:39:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Over in Europe, you can copyright a database of obvious facts, even if > > it isn't organized in a clever fashion. This is regarded as > > breathtakingly obvious by the Europeans on this list who are well up on > > EU copyright law, and breathtakingly wrong by Americans on this list who > > are well up on U.S. Copyright law. > > Uh, not really. You can protect databases, but they're not covered by > copyright law. The protection is available for every group of data which > is ordered in some fashion (that includes cabinet files filled with > paper data cards, as long as they're ordered, e.g. in an alphabetical > way), and it consists of a protection for a period of 15 years after the > last update to the database, which forbids *complete* reproduction but > explicitely allows unlimited quoting from the database, as long as you > mention your sources. > > At least that's how things are in Belgium; there could be little > differences in other EU members. Same here, pretty much. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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