On 05/08/18 23:04, Warin wrote:
The legal niceties are above me, but the phone book people won ... so
even though the facts in the phone book are not copyright, practically
you cannot copy them into your own data base.
Ridiculous but true.
I'd think similar legal arguments could be made in a British court.
There is no need to rely on case law, as there is now statute law that
covers this, and has been for at least 20 year:
<https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3032/regulation/13/made>
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