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:
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On 12/06/2012 16:38, lists@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
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