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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
michele at blacknight.ie
Wed Jun 13 11:17:10 CEST 2012
Pretty much all domain name registries will hold copyright in their whois database Do a lookup on any ccTLD domain name and you'll see this On 13 Jun 2012, at 10:11, James Davis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 12/06/2012 16:38, lists at help.org wrote: > >> they also claim "copyrights" on the data even though copyrights do >> not cover lists of facts like whois data. > > IANA(EU)L, but I believe you are correct in that within the EU > objective collections of data should not automatically obtain > copyright protection. Entirely separate to copyright there do appear > to be 'database rights' that allow the owner of a database to object > to things like copying of the database to protect the effort that went > into creating it. > > I expect there are a large number of harmless explanations for what > you've seen, including: > > - - RoTLD believe that they've done something to confer copyright > protection. > - - Their notice is simply mistranslated into English > - - Romania is a new member of the EU and hasn't yet harmonized this > aspect of it's copyright law > > If you haven't done so already it'd be worth writing to them and asking. > > Regards, > > James > > - -- > James Davis 0300 999 2340 (+44 1235 822340) > Senior CSIRT Member > Lumen House, Library Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0SG > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iF4EAREIAAYFAk/YWUIACgkQjsS2Y6D6yLxA4AD/Srca7GMOXWqGFB4xdm37Qoc9 > eOuENSISnaNXw3KK97IA/i3YjIsGf5H3SB/tN/SQ9Nv2bnZMgGzjjkSBiqNONvqw > =lgfj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Janet is a trading name of The JNT Association, a company limited > by guarantee which is registered in England under No. 2881024 > and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, > Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG > > Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions ♞ Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection ICANN Accredited Registrar http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://blacknight.biz http://mneylon.tel Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 US: 213-233-1612 Locall: 1850 929 929 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Facebook: http://fb.me/blacknight Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845
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