Hello, 2011/4/26 MZMcBride <[email protected]>: > [email protected] wrote: >> It's my understanding that "sweat of the brown" does not create a >> copyright at all. That was the entire argument behind the claim that >> phonebooks had no copyright protection. Similarly pure indexes have no >> copyright protection since they exhibit no creativity at all. Bad news >> for indexers. > > It depends on the country (as Thomas said). This was the major issue behind > the National Portrait Gallery drama in 2009. The UK and other European > countries do count "sweat of the brow" labors as eligible for copyright > while the U.S. does not.
I don't know any other European country other than UK which count "sweat of the brow" labors as eligible for copyright. > MZMcBride Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
