On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:48:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Over in Europe, you can copyright a database of obvious facts, even if > > > it isn't organized in a clever fashion. > > > You do not copyright a database. You claim database rights on > > such a database if you can prove a substantial investment in > > time, effort or money for its creation. European countries also > > have trademarks, which you can get even without being creative > > and original. It's a different law. > > Well, regardless of whether it's *called* copyright, it is a copy-right > creator to control the creation of copies of the work.
More to the point: this law is specific to databases, and does not apply to computer programs. And even for databases, it's hard to make it stick. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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