On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Telstra, a carrier, won it's copyright case over companies copying > from white/yellow pages in 2001: > > http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/articles_pdf/A01n09.pdf
For those who don't want to follow the link, the essence is: "The Court concluded that [ a compilation is copyright ] ... if the author has engaged in sufficient work or incurred sufficient expense gathering the information." This idea is referred to as the "sweat of the brow” or “industrious collection” doctrine. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
