* Arnoud Engelfriet: >> Unfortunately, German law does not take into account whether the >> database owner is a German national or not. > > Can you give me a cite for that? I was under the impression that > Germany had simply translated the Directive literally into national > law. And from http://www.ivir.nl/files/database/#germany I find > the German Act that put database rights into force. Page 1879, at > http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/BGBl/TEIL1/1997/19971879.1.HTML > states among other things:
Thanks for the correction. You are right.