Some thoughts propted by the Lemely/Carroll exchange.
It seems to me that one of the problems with database protection is database producers wanting to have their cake and eat it too... i.e. copyright protection and database protection. If a database was just given database protection (whatever what will turn out to be) and not copyright protection there would be a stronger argument for saying database are not writing covered by copyright so can be covered by something else. But if database creators also want copyright protection it seems harder to argue that databases are not writing under the meaning of the copyright clause and therefore entitled to some other protection.
-- S. Warwick swarwick[_at_]sprynet.comReceived on Fri May 15 1998 - 19:47:05 GMT
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