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From: Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen@worldbenders.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:35:52 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
At 5:22 PM +0000 9/11/03, Matt Mihaly wrote,
> Well, as far as I am aware (and I am not a lawyer), the law would
> not recognize a collection of database entries as having any legal
> right whatsoever. Without legal right there is no legal
> ownership. Companies can own things. Individuals can own
> things. I'm pretty sure an avatar or the copy of Word sitting on
> my harddrive cannot, at least in the eyes of the law.
The EU is proposing just such copyrights for databases and the US is
also considering it.
http://www.mbc.com/db30/cgi-bin/pubs/TPA-European_Commission.pdf
http://www.avnonline.com/issues/200309/newsarchive/news_090503_10.shtml
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Tamzen
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
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