Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >Many countries have copyright for databases; I think the whole EU has > >it. > > Would a "database" as small as this file be covered? I personally doubt > it, but I don't know how "database copyrights" are defined generally.
It's not exactly a "database copyright" but a separate right that protects a database for which you had to do a substantial investment. http://www.iusmentis.com/databases/crashcourse/ A few sentences are hardly the "substantial investment" that the database directive talks about. If it were a collection of fortunes, then maybe. As to copyright, a single sentence is generally accepted to be too short to qualify for copyright protection. Still, at the same time, a haiku is likely to be protected even though it's easy to write single sentences that are longer than haikus. Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch & European patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
