[CREATE] KOffice profiles license

Michael Schumacher schumaml at gmx.de
Thu Jan 22 11:26:32 PST 2009


Jon Phillips wrote:

> Yes, this is a similar situation to pantone colors. They slap names
> onto some mixtures and package the collections, but it is dubious if
> the mixture numbers themselves are under copyright, since factual data
> (aka phonebooks) is not copyrightable.

Hm... bad example. At least in Germany, phone books are protected as
databases

(german)
(BGH, Aktenzeichen I ZR 199/96, I ZR 210/96, I ZR 211/96, I ZR 5/97).

http://bundesrecht.juris.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJNR012730965BJNG004301377



HTH,
Michael

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