Fishy smell .. bam ! Europe\'s \'Database Right\' Could Throttle Open Data Moves There http://t.co/tyWWVUcL via @Techdirt
February 13, 2013
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Europe's 'Database Right' Could Throttle Open Data Moves There | Techdirt
from the worse-than-useless dept One of the more benighted moves by the European Union was the introduction of a special kind of copyright for databases in 1996: not for their contents, but for their compilation. This means that even if the contents are in the public domain, the database may not be.