Not copyrighting facts (RE: copyrighting FACTS???)

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> objections from Democrats that the bill
> would allow owners of databases to secure copyright-like protections on
> facts within databases, not just.."

People arguing for or in behalf of controversial bills often indulge in
overheated rhetoric, so it's important to take the characterizations of a
bill's opponents (or its proponents, for that matter) with a grain or two
of salt.  Just because those who oppose the bill say that it would give
"copyright-like protections" to facts does not mean that the bill itself
would, in fact, allow database providers to copyright facts.

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Rick Anderson
Director of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu