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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, 16:21 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>Both of you are saying that factual data such as opening_hours, phone numbers or addresses require no investiment <br></div><div>and thus they are not protected by the database rights. Am I right?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">it seems to me that (I am no a lawyer etc) that it depends:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">someone publishing data about their OWN shops (or other types of objects):<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not passing barrier of protection<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">someone publishing data about shops where there was "substantial" effort into making database:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">protected<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For example making on my own database of opening hours of Tesco shops in my country<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">would require visiting every single shop, I think that this data would be probably protected<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">in short: <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- we can copy from websites maintained by businesses both small and large as far as<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">copyright is concerned (other limitations may apply like concerns about data quality)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that give information about their own business<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- we must not copy from other sources like phonebooks/Google Maps that aggregate results<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">about other businesses (except cases where we are really sure that database protection laws do not apply)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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