Re: West loses major copyright decision

Andrew Martin <amartin[_at_]cancopy.com> wrote:
>
> What I find intriguing in these discussions is that no-one seems to be
> giving any thought to whether commercial publishers will continue with
> services that, effectively, can be ripped off by competitors, who have
> invested absolutely nothing. Leaving aside any desire to beat up on
> West, any your interests really advanced if the larger law publishers
> decide to abandon what are obviously, for practitioners and academics,
> key areas of publishing?

You may consider the possible impact of a data base protection scheme, similar to what was proposed at Geneva in December, or adopted by the European Union. In this case, West would have protection of the compilation as such, but not the individual decisions.

Jon Bing

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<jon.bing[_at_]jus.uio.no> Received on Sat May 31 1997 - 11:25:48 GMT