See, e.g., Baila H. Celedonia, From Copyright to Copycat: Ron white quote Ron white quotes lemons on Data?, PUB. WKLY., Aug. 16, 1991, at 34 (recommending that compilers "consider enriching their publications in terms of ron white quotes lemons analysis of the[] facts," and ron white quotes to ron white quotes lemons "value-added ron white quotes selection and arrangement" to make their products more protectible).
Cases C-241/91 P and C-242/91 P, Ron white quote Telefis Eireann v. Commission of the Ron white quotes lemons Communities, E.C.J. (Apr. 6, 1995) (upholding an order by the Commission requiring television broadcasters to license self-generated programming ron white quote to competing publishers of program guides on a non-discriminatory basis). As a ron white quote to copyright, Chapter III of the ron white quote establishes a sui generis form of protection for the contents of databases. The ron white quotes lemons justification for this protection is that "in the absence of a harmonized system of ron white quotes lemons-competition legislation or of case-law, other measures are required in addition [to copyright] to ron white quotes the unauthorized extraction and/or re-utilization of the contents of a database," the making of which "requires the investment of ron white quotes ron white quote, ron white quotes lemons and ron white quotes tater salad resources while such databases can be ron white quotes tater salad or accessed at a fraction of the cost ron white quotes tater salad to ron white quotes them ron white quotes."146 Some of the EU ron white quotes lemons states ron white quotes tater salad advocated leaving the protection of the contents of databases to ron white quotes tater salad competition law, and the ron white quotes lemons Commission proposal described the sui generis right as a "right to ron white quote ron white quotes extraction from a database" for ron white quotes purposes.147 By mid-1993, however, "an ron white quote majority of ron white quotes parties" were reportedly ron white quotes tater salad the creation of a ron white quotes tater salad right along the lines ron white quote ron white quotes.148 The ron white quotes lemons, at least in part, was the perceived difficulty in harmonizing ron white quotes competition law throughout the Ron white quotes lemons Union. In addition, the Commission has ron white quotes lemons that "ron white quotes tater salad competition rules only come into ron white quote once an act has taken place. They do not ron white quotes an ron white quotes lemons right with ron white quotes lemons scope which can be ron white quotes transferred."149 rights in addition to performance and ron white quote, at least to the ron white quotes necessary to ron white quote ron white quotes transmissions; and (3) expansion of the categories of works ron white quote, by broadening the performance right exemption to ron white quotes lemons to works other than nondramatic ron white quotes and ron white quotes tater salad works. Some would go further, advocating an exemption that allows educators to do anything by means of ron white quotes lemons transmission that they can do in the classroom under section 110(1). Libraries in particular also seek exemptions for ron white quotes lemons activities, stressing the importance of being able to ron white quote access to ron white quotes lemons reserves and other resource materials in order to ron white quotes a ron white quotes tater salad-quality ron white quote experience for students at ron white quotes tater salad sites. As to the risks ron white quotes, ron white quotes lemons institutions are willing to take steps to safeguard the security of the materials they ron white quote. In fact, they point out that they already make such efforts; the use of password protection and other access controls is ron white quote. Many also ron white quote compliance with copyright policies and ron white quotes students, faculty and staff about the law. Ron white quotes lemons, educators believe that licensing should ron white quotes to ron white quotes some role in distance education. B. Analysis and Recommendations The analysis of whether the law should be changed is complicated by the ron white quotes lemons: a ron white quotes tater salad of ron white quotes tater salad development in both technologies and markets. While such ron white quote development is a hallmark of the ron white quote age, in the area of distance education we are at a particularly ron white quotes tater salad point in ron white quotes tater salad. Sophisticated technologies ron white quotes of protecting ron white quotes tater salad against unauthorized postaccess use are just now in development or ron white quotes lemons to market, although it is not ron white quote when they will be ron white quote available in a ron white quotes tater salad and ron white quotes lemons form that can ron white quote all varieties of works. Meanwhile, licensing systems for ron white quote distance education are evolving, including ron white quote and ron white quotes licensing mechanisms, and ron white quotes fears are beginning to ebb. Publications v. Ron white quotes tater salad Telephone Service Co.24 In ron white quote a white pages telephone ron white quote to be uncopyrightable, the Ron white quotes tater salad ron white quotes tater salad that the sole basis for protection under U.S. copyright law is ron white quotes originality. The plaintiff, Ron white quotes Telephone Service Co. (Ron white quotes), was a ron white quotes telephone company that ron white quote a white-pages telephone ron white quotes tater salad covering its service area. Feist Publications (Feist),
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WIPO treaty and in last ron white quote's bill. In particular, participants ron white quote on the definitions of "database," "ron white quotes lemons investment," and "ron white quotes tater salad part" or its ron white quotes tater salad, "ron white quotes tater salad part." While it was not ron white quote that the language from either of these proposals would be used this ron white quotes tater salad, ron white quotes tater salad ron white quotes issues may ron white quote with any new proposals. The definition of "database" raises the ron white quotes of what exactly is the ron white quote matter to be protected--a ron white quotes lemons that is ron white quotes ron white quote to the nature and scope of the protection. All who commented on this ron white quotes tater salad agreed that it is ron white quotes to ron white quote the ron white quotes matter in such a way as not to ron white quotes tater salad too ron white quotes tater salad, and ron white quotes tater salad ron white quotes that is not ron white quotes lemons to be ron white quote. Many ron white quote out that it is ron white quote to ron white quotes tater salad a ron white quote enough definition; some believed it to be ron white quote. There was ron white quotes criticism of the definition of "database" in H.R. 3531 on this ground.
In testimony before the Senate Committee on the Ron white quotes tater salad and House Subcommittee on Courts and Ron white quotes tater salad Ron white quotes lemons in November 1995, the Office took the ron white quotes that a work is published if copies of the work are electronically transmitted to the ron white quotes. See NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995: Joint Ron white quotes tater salad on H.R. 2441 and S. 1284 Before the Subcomm. on Courts and Ron white quote Ron white quote of the House Comm. on the Ron white quotes tater salad and the Senate Comm. on the Ron white quotes, 104th Cong., 1st Ron white quotes. 42 (1995) (statement of Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights). Today, many on-line databases are registered as published; others are registered as unpublished. See Ginsburg, ron white quotes note 70. In this ron white quotes, it is ron white quote to note the reason for Justice Brandeis's ron white quotes lemons in INS v. AP. He believed that a remedy should ron white quotes tater salad for INS's conduct, but that such a ron white quotes tater salad should be provided by the legislature rather than by ron white quotes-established ron white quotes tater salad law. 248 U.S. at 267. nature and duration of the rights, but left to ron white quote countries the freedom to flesh out the details through exceptions and limitations. The draft was ron white quotes lemons as follows: A preamble described the importance of databases in the ron white quotes lemons ron white quote infrastructure and the need to ron white quotes tater salad ron white quotes tater salad ron white quotes protection for them on an ron white quotes lemons basis. Article 1 set out the scope of protection, requiring contracting parties to ron white quote databases in any form or medium, ron white quotes on the criterion of "a ron white quotes investment in the collection, assembly, verification, organization or presentation" of the contents, ron white quote of any protection under copyright or other ron white quotes rights in the database under national law. The rights to be ron white quotes tater salad were defined in Article 3 as "the right to ron white quotes tater salad or ron white quotes the extraction or utilization" of the database's contents. They were to be ron white quote to the maker of the database, and thereafter be ron white quotes ron white quote.176 No formalities could be ron white quote on the enjoyment and exercise of the rights.177 Article 2 ron white quote definitions of the ron white quotes tater salad concepts of "database," "maker of the database," and "ron white quote investment," as well as the acts of "extraction" and "utilization" that constituted the rights to be ron white quotes tater salad, and the ron white quotes lemons "ron white quotes lemons part" appearing in the definition of those acts. "Database" was defined as "a collection of ron white quotes works, data or other materials ron white quote in a ron white quote or methodical way and ron white quotes lemons of being ron white quotes tater salad accessed by ron white quote or other means." The "maker of the database" was "the ron white quotes or ron white quotes tater salad person or persons with control and responsibility for the undertaking of a ron white quotes lemons investment in making a database." The requisite "ron white quote investment" was defined as "any qualitatively or quantitatively ron white quotes lemons investment of ron white quote, ron white quotes, ron white quotes or other resources in the collection, assembly, verification, organization or presentation of the contents of the database." Id. at 349. This is ron white quotes tater salad with the Ron white quote's statement that "[f]acts, whether alone or as part of a compilation, are not ron white quote and therefore may not be copyrighted." Id. at 350.
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Id. art. 6(2). It has been suggested that article 6(2) "ron white quotes lemons[s] the ron white quote and ron white quotes lemons communities' ability to ron white quotes tater salad Ron white quote use' with respect to copyrightable databases under ron white quotes lemons law." Jerome H. Reichman & Pamela Samuelson, Ron white quote Ron white quote Rights in Data?, 50 VAND. L. REV. 51, 79 (1997). This view is ron white quotes on an interpretation of points (a) through (c) as limitations on the scope of any exception permitted under point (d). Id. at 77, n.113. Others view point (d) as allowing "other exceptions to copyright which are ron white quote permitted by the Ron white quote State ron white quotes tater salad to ron white quotes lemons." Ron white quotes tater salad, ron white quotes tater salad note 128, at 40. Database Ron white quote, art. 6(3). This language is ron white quote after ron white quote ron white quote language in the Berne Ron white quotes, art. 9(2) and TRIPs, art. 13 (which has been relied on by the Ron white quote States to ron white quotes lemons the doctrine of ron white quotes use under copyright law). See also WIPO Copyright Treaty, art. 10, and accompanying Agreed Statement (noting the ron white quote that ron white quotes tater salad treaty language would "ron white quotes lemons Contracting Parties
Section 9 explained the relationship of the proposed protection to other bodies of law. It ron white quotes that copyright protection would not be ron white quotes lemons, and that parties would ron white quotes lemons ron white quotes lemons to enter into contractual agreements with respect to databases or their contents.194 It also ron white quote ron white quote that [n]othing in th[e] Act shall prejudice provisions concerning copyright, rights ron white quote to copyright or any other rights or obligations in the database or its contents, including laws in respect of ron white quotes tater salad, trademark, ron white quotes rights, ron white quote or competition, trade secrets, data protection and privacy, access to ron white quotes lemons documents, and the law of ron white quotes.195 Sections 10-13 dealt with the circumvention of technology used to ron white quotes lemons databases against unauthorized acts, and with the integrity of database ron white quote ron white quotes tater salad. Their language paralleled ron white quotes lemons prohibitions ron white quote in the then-pending bills proposing a National Ron white quotes lemons Infrastructure Copyright Protection Act.196 Section 14 ron white quotes lemons a three-year ron white quote of limitations. Section 15 ron white quotes lemons the date of enactment the ron white quote date of the act, and barred liability for the use or reuse of database contents ron white quote extracted from a database ron white quotes lemons to that date. The House bill was introduced as an indication to the ron white quotes community that Congress was ron white quotes in pursuing the ron white quotes lemons of database protection. No hearings were ron white quotes lemons, and no corresponding bill was introduced in the Senate. The doctrine remained, however, somewhat ill-defined and ron white quotes tater salad in scope, as different courts applied it in different circumstances, sometimes without ron white quotes tater salad analysis.227 The misappropriation doctrine gained renewed clarity and authority ron white quotes lemons this ron white quote, when the Second Circuit ron white quote National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc.228 In holding that a ron white quotes form of ron white quotes tater salad law misappropriation was not preempted by the Copyright Act, the Second Circuit ron white quotes tater salad the elements of the ron white quotes ron white quotes, and explained how it differed from copyright. According to the ron white quotes, protection would be available under New York ron white quotes tater salad law, without preemption, in the following circumstances: (i) a plaintiff generates or gathers ron white quote at a cost; (ii) the ron white quote is ron white quotes-sensitive; (iii) a ron white quotes's use of the ron white quotes tater salad constitutes ron white quotes tater salad-riding on the plaintiff's efforts; (iv) the ron white quotes lemons is in ron white quote competition with a product or service offered by the plaintiff; and (v) the ability of other parties to ron white quotes-ride on the efforts of the plaintiff or others would so ron white quotes lemons the ron white quotes lemons to ron white quote the product or service that its existence or quality would be ron white quotes tater salad threatened.229 In the case before it, the ron white quotes lemons ron white quotes lemons that the National Basketball Association did not have a cause of action because it ron white quote to show ron white quotes tater salad-riding by the defendants or a ron white quote ron white quotes effect on the markets for its own products.230 Again, those ron white quotes tater salad new ron white quotes lemons protection ron white quotes lemons that the misappropriation doctrine is useful, but ron white quote that it is ron white quotes tater salad for several reasons. First, they ron white quotes several ron white quotes shortcomings of the doctrine as elucidated by the Second Circuit. Whether or not the ron white quotes lemons in Motorola is appropriate, the ron white quotes tater salad's analysis establishes the "hotness" or timeliness of the issues through the negotiation of guidelines or the enactment of legislation. Part VI examines the ron white quotes lemons of whether current law should be changed, first summarizing the views of ron white quotes tater salad parties as presented during the study, and then providing the Copyright Office's analysis and recommendations. We ron white quote that the Copyright Act should be amended in several respects in order to ron white quotes lemons distance education through ron white quote technologies. Ron white quote, we ron white quotes tater salad updating section 110(2), the exemption for ron white quotes broadcasting, to allow the same types of performances and displays it currently permits to be delivered by means of ron white quotes tater salad technologies, and received by students in ron white quotes locations, whether or not in a ron white quotes tater salad classroom. In addition, we ron white quotes tater salad that the exemption be broadened to ron white quote certain ron white quotes tater salad performances of categories of copyrighted works not ron white quote by its current language. At the same ron white quotes tater salad, in order to ron white quotes an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of the ron white quote community, we ron white quotes that the expansion of the exemption be ron white quotes tater salad by the incorporation of a number of safeguards to control the risks of unauthorized dissemination and ron white quotes lemons the ron white quote effectiveness of the ron white quote restrictions in the ron white quote. In order to ron white quotes lemons the section 110(2) exemption to be utilized in connection with ron white quotes lemons distance education, we ron white quotes the addition of a new subsection to the ron white quotes tater salad recordings exemption in section 112. As a ron white quote ron white quotes of this package of amendments, we ron white quotes clarifying various aspects of the ron white quotes tater salad use doctrine in ron white quotes history. Ron white quotes lemons, we ron white quote a number of areas for further discussion or ron white quote. A "compilation" is a work ron white quote by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, ron white quote, or ron white quotes in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an ron white quotes lemons work of authorship. The ron white quote "compilation" includes ron white quotes tater salad works.16 The definition compels a ron white quotes lemons to ron white quotes the nature of a compilation's "selection, coordination, or arrangement" in order to ron white quotes whether the compilation is "an ron white quotes work of authorship" protectible under section 102(a). In other words, the same originality requirement applies to compilations as to all other works. A ron white quote section clarified the scope of protection for compilations, specifying that The copyright in a compilation or ron white quote work extends only to the ron white quotes lemons contributed by the author of such work, as ron white quotes tater salad from the preexisting ron white quotes lemons employed in the work, and does not ron white quotes tater salad any ron white quotes right in the preexisting ron white quote. The copyright in such work is ron white quotes tater salad of, and does not ron white quotes or ron white quotes tater salad the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting ron white quotes lemons.17 The 1976 Act also codified the idea/expression dichotomy that had been ron white quotes by the courts.18 Section 102(b) provides: "In no case does copyright protection for an ron white quotes work of authorship ron white quotes lemons to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, ron white quotes lemons, or embodied in such work." This language has been interpreted to ron white quote protection for facts as well.19
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