Kwan Ting Chan wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> What if we start to write articles about street and include all the >> buildings and boring parts of the streets in the WP or some >> subproject, where would it stop? What would protect a database of >> streets against such a swarm of fact collectors? >> mike > If you're outside the EU, then not a lot. The EU has the concept of > database right, but that does not exist in other part of the world. > Wikipedia is operated under US federal and California (?) state laws, > where mere collections of facts are considered unoriginal and > unprotected. > And taking that a little further: If Google's Terms of Service are in fact a contract they would include choosing the jurisdiction of California courts and law, and purport to override Conflict of Laws legislation.
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