Francis

> That isn't to say that *some other* licence attached to each 
> page that made the matter clearer might not do what you seem 
> to want ie (i) permit copying/reuse of single pages but (ii) 
> not permit re-use of a substantial part of the database (if 
> you'll forgive a tautology inherent in the directive).

No. that's pretty much what I was asking about.

the scenario I have in mind is where a commercial publisher with a large
dataset collected over many years, might want to make the data more freely
available, but would want to prtect against an upstart competitor appearing
on the horizon, using the original data.

> 
> But why? I'd be prepared to bet that there are lots of My 
> Society types whose gut feeling runs entirely contrary to any 
> such exercise, but it may be that I have not understood what 
> you are doing.


No. I think you've understood completely.


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