[Legal-general] The elephant in the room

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Thanks for citing that court case Frederik. I'll look into getting a
copy of that case and reading trough it.

Landon

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 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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