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To: LibWhacker
This sounds good to me. They're not owning facts. They're owning collections of facts, subject to fair use. It's just like how the publisher or translator owns the rights to the text of the Bible I use. Their website states:
The ESV text may be quoted (in written, visual, or electronic form) up to and inclusive of one thousand (1,000) verses without express written permission of the publisher, providing that the verses quoted to not amount to a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted account for 50 percent or more of the total text of the work in which they are quoted.
Before you whine that the compilers of these databases got the information from somewhere else themselves, remember that they too would be subject to this law, and also that they did all the effort in the sorting and presentation of the data. I wish you guys would find a real news article about this topic, rather than an editorial from Wired....
20 posted on 03/04/2004 8:36:22 AM PST by Styria
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To: Styria
I wish you guys would find a real news article about this topic, rather than an editorial from Wired....

I wish all the quadraplegics out there would stop whining about the quality of work I do!

23 posted on 03/04/2004 9:47:48 AM PST by LibWhacker
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