[e-privacy] Database e data retention

[Andrea Glorioso]

Dagli States con furore:

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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/12/01/2346217.shtml?tid=103&tid=137&tid=153&tid=198&tid=99

Who Owns The Facts?

Posted by timothy on Monday December 01, @09:36PM
from the mere-aggregation dept.

windowpain writes "With all of the furor over  the Patriot Act a truly
scary bill that  expands the rights of  corporations at the expense of
individuals was quietly introduced into  congress in October. In Feist
v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co. the Supreme Court ruled that a mere collection
of facts can't  be  copyrighted.  But  H.R.   3261, the  Database  and
Collections of Information Misappropriation  Act [0] neatly  sidesteps
the copyright question and allows treble damages  to be levied against
anyone  who uses information  that's in a  database that a corporation
asserts    it  owns.  This is  an    issue that crosses  the political
spectrum.    Left-leaning  organizations  like the   American  Library
Association  [1] oppose  the bill and  so  do arch-conservatives  like
Phyllis  Schlafly, who  wrote  an impassioned  column [2] exposing the
bill for what it is the week after it was introduced."


[0] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.03261:
[1] http://capwiz.com/ala/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=3895511
[2] http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2003/oct03/03-10-22.shtml

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Se non erro abbiamo anche noi la nostra brava direttiva sulle banche
dati con relativa implementazione italiana.  Qualcuno ha riferimenti
piu` precisi in merito?

ciao,

andrea
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