[anti-abuse-wg] meeting minutes

Pretty much all domain name registries will hold copyright in their whois database

Do a lookup on any ccTLD domain name and you'll see this


On 13 Jun 2012, at 10:11, James Davis wrote:

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> On 12/06/2012 16:38, lists at help.org wrote:
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>> 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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> James Davis                0300 999 2340 (+44 1235 822340)
> Senior CSIRT Member	
> Lumen House, Library Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0SG
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> Janet is a trading name of The JNT Association, a company limited
> by guarantee which is registered in England under No. 2881024 
> and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue,
> Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG
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> 

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