<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 7 May 2022, at 17:37, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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I don’t think copyright can enter into it, by dint of the fact that registry data, being purely factual and publicly available, cannot be copyrighted.
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">On March 27, 1991, in a case that transformed the nascent online database publishing industry, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there is no copyright protection for purely
factual products such as a telephone directory white pages. </span></p>
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</div></blockquote><br><div>I wasn’t talking about US law…</div><div><br></div><div>Ray</div></body></html>