Re: copyright for link directories?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Stefan Bauschard <bauscsa4[_at_]wfu.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm curious as to whether or not there are any cases dealing with
> copying of LINK DIRECTORIES. Or, is there any relevant law that
> might stop someone from copying en mass say a directory of global
> newspapers and republishing it on a different site? Are there
> any guidelines so to speak for determining when and if a directory
> was copied?

I would think that this would be a compilation, providing a fairly "thin" copyright over the selection and/or arrangement of items in the directory. Of course, one would have to show some original selection and/or arrangement - there would be no copyright in a selection of ALL newspapers for example.

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