Protection for (Digital) Databases
Compilation copyrights are “thin”
Feist v. Rural Telephone Service
- “White pages” not an “original” compilation
- Eliminated “sweat of the brow” doctrine
ProCD v. Zeidenberg
- Can you contract around the copyright law?
Some new form of protection for databases?
- New rights for “extraction” and “utilization”?
- Should effort count (in addition to originality)?
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