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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">5 Jul 2019, 11:39 by yumean1119@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>because it would be unfair if websites of small business are allowed and those of large comanies are not. <br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I am guessing that it is also OK for large companies - but this is based on common sense<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that often fails for copyright.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Though I would not care that for once something is unfair against large companies <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(to limit to OSM examples - name-suggestion-index[1] is useful and helps during mapping<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">but is biased against small companies and helps only in mapping chain POIs)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><div style="16px">[1] <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/">https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">----<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">warning: I am digging into it as I am curious what is the answer, please remember<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that I am not a lawyer and may be hilariously mistaken<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">----<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009&from=EN">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009&from=EN</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"Whereas the term ‘database’ should be understood to
include literary, artistic, musical or<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">other collections of works or
collections of other material such as texts, sound, images,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">numbers,
facts, and data; whereas it should cover collections of independent
works, data<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">or other materials which are systematically or methodically
arranged and can be individually<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">accessed; whereas this means that a
recording or an audiovisual, cinematographic, literary<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">or musical work
as such does not fall within the scope of this Directive;"<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"Whereas the protection provided for in this Directive relates to databases in which works,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">data or other materials have been arranged systematically or methodically; whereas it is not<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">necessary for those materials to have been physically stored in an organized manner,"<br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I really would like to say that "here is list of opening hours for our 1250 shops" is clearly<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not a database but it seems to qualify (warning: I am not a lawyer).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009#d1e757-20-1">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009#d1e757-20-1</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">has<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"Member States shall provide for a right for the maker of a database
which shows that there <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">has been qualitatively and/or quantitatively a
substantial investment in either the obtaining, <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">verification or
presentation of the contents to prevent extraction and/or re-utilization
of the <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">whole or of a substantial part, evaluated qualitatively and/or
quantitatively, of the contents <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">of that database."<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Maybe it can be argued that company has no substantial investment here?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">In neither obtaining nor verification nor
presentation?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Presentation is simple one - there is clearly no substantial investment here.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Not sure about what is understood as "substantial" for obtaining or verification.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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