[Legal-general] The elephant in the room

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Gustav Foseid wrote:
> As important this is to the enitre project, I think it is suprisingly little
> discussed. In addition to copyright, sui generis databse protection is of
> course equally important.

As is the question of the relevance of a regional law for an 
international project; sui generis database projection is a purely 
European concept. (Some seem to believe that the "sweat of the brow" 
doctrine will offer similar protection in the US, but my source[1] says: 
"The United States rejected this doctrine in the 1991 United States 
Supreme Court case Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service ... 
Under the Feist rule in the US, mere collections of facts are considered 
unoriginal and thus not protected by copyright, no matter how much work 
went into collating them.")

Bye
Frederik

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

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