On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:13:03AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I keep sticking out my head over and over again [e.g. 1, recently on R > list] asking the same questions trying to clear up my understanding of > data-copyrightability and licensing issues. > yesterday I have found a nice summary [2] which I think might clarify > situation here as well a bit. From what I see > Database itself can easily be protected by a copyright as a "compilation" > even if specific data pieces in the database are not copyrightable and plain > facts; so you would need to obey the license terms if you are just going to > ship the database as a whole or a major part of it. Data itself, if taken > sparingly (;-)) might not be protected by a copyright (thus reused freely), BUT > if it all comes from EU -- situation might be different: "... a sui generis > right that prohibits the extraction or reutilization of any database in which > there has been a substantial investment in either obtaining, verification, or > presentation of the data contents. Under this second right, there is no > requirement for creativity or originality." [2] So there I guess you would > need to obtain such facts from other means/sources. > [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-April/063762.html > [2] http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html UniProt.org is registered in the US. Is there any reason to believe this particular work is tainted by EU database rights? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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