> On 7 May 2022, at 17:37, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote:
> 
>  I don’t think copyright can enter into it, by dint of the fact that 
> registry data, being purely factual and publicly available, cannot be 
> copyrighted.
> 
> On March 27, 1991, in a case that transformed the nascent online database 
> publishing industry, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there is no 
> copyright protection for purely factual products such as a telephone 
> directory white pages. 

I wasn’t talking about US law…

Ray

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