On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>wrote:

> "For over a
> hundred years, English courts have held that a significant expenditure of
> labour is sufficient" - that's, er, Wikipedia saying that.


Has there been any "sweat of the brow" cases after the database directive
has been implemented?

In the Scandinavian countries a, somewhat, similar right exists ("anyone who
gathers a large number of of facts"). I have seen legal arguments that this
is invalid after the database directive, but has not been able to find any
court cases that are relevant.

 - Gustav
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