Aiya! >> In some countries (USA and Germany?) lists/databases are copyrightable, >> even is single data is not! (phone book, games scores and statistics,...) In Russia too. EGE> Don't you mean protected by the Database Directive, which is not the EGE> same thing as copyright: it has a much shorter duration, for example? I cannot say anything about USA and Germany, but in Russia databases are collections and protected by exactly the same law. It is explicitly stated. This protection is definitely copyright.
-- Best regards, Ruslan Batdalov

