Online Databases–Copyright
Source: News.Com
Court doesn’t extend databases’ protection
From the article, “In the first case of its kind, a federal court in New York has ruled that one company’s snatching of a database from a rival’s Web site does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald said in an opinion released this week that Berkshire Information Systems did not run afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law by allegedly downloading up to 85 percent of a proprietary advertising-tracking database from competitor Inquiry Management Systems’ (IMS) Web site.”

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