[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

[Yann Forget]

Hello,

2011/4/26 MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com>:
> WJhonson at aol.com 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