"Ostensibly, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (HR3261) makes it a crime for anyone to copy and redistribute a substantial portion of data collected by commercial database companies and list publishers. But critics say the bill would give the companies ownership of facts -- stock quotes, historical health data, sports scores and voter lists. The bill would restrict the kinds of free exchange and shared resources that are essential to an informed citizenry, opponents say.

The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill and the commerce committee is expected to review it on Thursday. (...)

Art Brodsky, spokesman for public advocacy group Public Knowledge, says the bill would let anyone drop a fact into a database or a collection of materials and claim monopoly rights to it. This would contradict the core principle of the Copyright Act, which states that mere information and ideas cannot be protected works."

http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62500,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Keywords: commercial database companies, historical health data, shared resources, sports scores, voter lists, stock quotes, list publishers, appropriation, database, exchange, rights

Português: propriedade de fatos

Outcomes: Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (HR3261)

-- GregorioIvanoff - 04 Feb 2021
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