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Court Advisor Says Poem List Infringed Database Right
Court Advisor Says Poem List Infringed Database Right
But how much copying is OK?
By OUT-LAW.COM
Published Tuesday 15th July 2008 09:01 GMT
The Register
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/15/ecj_poem_list_opinion/>
Europe's highest court could strengthen the rights of database creators to
protect their work. One of the European Court of Justice's Advocates
General has issued an opinion backing a German University's right to stop
others using information it compiled.
A European Union Directive protects the content of databases even when
they are not protected by copyright law. It does this to protect the
significant investment involved in creating a database.
Sufficiently creative and original databases are protected by copyright,
but there are many others that are not covered by copyright law, such as
telephone directories, music charts or football match listings.
<snip>
Professor Dr Ulrich Knoop, a Professor of German at the University,
oversaw the compilation of the 1,100 most important poems in German
between 1720 and 1900. The list was published on the internet and served
as the basis for an anthology compiled by the University. That list took
two-and-a-half years to compile and cost the University 34,900.
A company called Directmedia Publishing then published a CD-ROM called
'1000 poems everyone should have', on which 876 of the poems are from the
period 1720 to 1900 and all but 20 of those appear on the University's
list. Though it took the text of poems from other sources, Directmedia did
use the University's list to help its selection of poems for the CD-ROM.
Knoop and the University sued Directmedia, claiming that it had infringed
Knoop's copyright as compiler of an anthology and the University's right
as a maker of a database.
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