[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

The point is that nobody holds a copyright on a set of facts such as 
whois registration data.  People just put these banner notices without 
any thought to whether they have legal authority to do so or whether 
they make sense at all.  They may have some rights but it is not under 
copyright law.

I did not contact .ro but I have contacted others about their whois 
policies.  RIPE gave evasive answers and ARIN will not give any kind of 
answer other than to point to their posted policies (when I asked for 
clarification they won't answer).   It is generally a waste of time to 
contact whois operators about these issues because you will get some 
techie who thinks he knows it all and who thinks his technical knowledge 
gives him a free pass to disregard the law.  When you point out things 
that don't make sense they just don't answer.

it is like this group, you ask that the minutes be fixed so people can 
understand it you get excuses and/or no response.  This is just 
arrogance of techies who want to shut out the users.