Chris Wallace wrote:
However the number of votes cast for a candidate in the election is surely a fact and and I thought that facts aren't copyrightable.
Facts indeed are not, but a collection of facts in a database can have a database right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right - which the Press Association explicitly mention e.g. paragraph 2 of http://election.pressassociation.com/terms-conditions.php
ATB, Matthew
In case anyone thinks they can use my RDF demo site, this includes the results of all candidates for each constituency and XML, RDF XML and CSV is obtainable for resources and SPARQL Queries
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