Re: Current status of copyright protection of data

The U.S. legislation was not enacted.
The Copyright Office report of August 1997 provides good background and is still relatively current
See http://www.copyright.gov/reports/dbase.html The EU did enact a database protection scheme See http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ebusiness/ecommerce/8epolicy_elaw/law_ecommerce/legal/documents/396L0009/396L0009_EN.doc The member states were to enact implementing legislation by 1998 (I think) WIPO was to have an exploratory meeting about database protection but I am not sure it actually took place.
Jim Brennan

• Original Message ----- From: "Jon Noring" <jon[_at_]noring.name> To: "CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property" <CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:15 AM Subject: [CNI-(C)] Current status of copyright protection of data

> I vaguely recall that after Feist, Congress considered legislation to
> extend copyright protection to compilations of data. What is the
> current status of this? Was such a law enacted?
>
> In addition, regarding this, what is the situation in England, Canada,
> Australia, and other countries in the world?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jon Noring
>
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