[anti-abuse-wg] meeting minutes

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On 12/06/2012 16:38, lists at help.org wrote:

> they also claim "copyrights" on the data even though copyrights do
> not cover lists of facts like whois data.

IANA(EU)L, but I believe you are correct in that within the EU
objective collections of data should not automatically obtain
copyright protection. Entirely separate to copyright there do appear
to be 'database rights' that allow the owner of a database to object
to things like copying of the database to protect the effort that went
into creating it.

I expect there are a large number of harmless explanations for what
you've seen, including:

- - RoTLD believe that they've done something to confer copyright
protection.
- - Their notice is simply mistranslated into English
- - Romania is a new member of the EU and hasn't yet harmonized this
aspect of it's copyright law

If you haven't done so already it'd be worth writing to them and asking.

Regards,

James

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