Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
What if we start to write articles about street and include all the buildings and boring parts of the streets in the WP or some subproject, where would it stop? What would protect a database of streets against such a swarm of fact collectors? mike
If you're outside the EU, then not a lot. The EU has the concept of database right, but that does not exist in other part of the world. Wikipedia is operated under US federal and California (?) state laws, where mere collections of facts are considered unoriginal and unprotected.
And taking that a little further: If Google's Terms of Service are in fact a contract they would include choosing the jurisdiction of California courts and law, and purport to override Conflict of Laws legislation.
Ec