HI, On 18 May 2010 08:00, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 May 2010 23:41, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The UK law bringing this EU directive in states (at >> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1997/73032--c.htm#13 ): "A property right >> ("database right") subsists, in accordance with this Part, in a database if >> there has been a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or >> presenting the contents of the database." >> >> Obtaining is not mentioned by that Wikipedia article, but is included in the >> Directive. IANAL, so would not like to be drawn on what the PA have done in >> this instance :) > > What's happening is you are talking about different things. The > directive creates a spanking new intellectual property right which is > what Matthew is talking about. At the same time the directive > harmonised the copyright in databases which requires the "own > intellectual creation" test. > > Example: football fixtures lists aren't subject to a database right > (because the league doesn't have to expend much effort on verifying or > obtaining them since they have them already as part of running the > league, but they do get copyright because there's creative > intellectual effort involved in putting them together (so the High > Court was convinced). > > I'm quite ill at the moment so I have no idea whether what I am saying > makes sense, but hopefully it does.
Yup, makes sense. I was wondering about this football fixtures thing. What if, once a week, I asked 20 fans (one for each premiership team) when their next team's fixture is, and put that into a database? Presumably then I'm assembling a new database of facts myself? Thanks, Seb _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
