7 May
2022
7 May
'22
8:50 p.m.
On 7 May 2022, at 17:37, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
I don’t think copyright can enter into it, by dint of the fact that registry data, being purely factual and publicly available, cannot be copyrighted.
On March 27, 1991, in a case that transformed the nascent online database publishing industry, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there is no copyright protection for purely factual products such as a telephone directory white pages.
I wasn’t talking about US law… Ray