Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:16:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:24:57PM +0200, Mika Fischer wrote:
> > > How far does one have to go in regard to data? A few examples.
> > >
> > > - Data published on the web:
> > > http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/cat1.html lists stars with possible planets
> > > around them.
> > > Is one allowed to use this data in a program?
> > > Basically for me this is just information and it doesn't make sense to
> > > restrict that.
> >
> > In the U.S., mere facts are not subject to copyright protection, and
> > there are no separate laws extending copyright-like protection to
> > databases of facts.
> >
> > In many European jurisdictions, copyright-like protections to extend to
> > databases of facts.
>
> I don't believe that database law applies here, due to the small size
> of the data set.
It is not really the size of the data set that matters; the amount of
work required to create the dataset is.
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