On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:53:39AM +0100, Janet McKnight wrote:
On Thu 31 May 2012, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:30:39PM +0100, Janet McKnight wrote:
It has just (belatedly) occurred to me though -- if I copy the opening times of a business from its website, am I allowed to make that info available under a cc licence? Is it a fact rather than something that can be copyrighted? Yes, I know, I should know this stuff by now. :-/
Individual facts are not copyrightable. Collections of facts (databases) may be subject to database rights.
So is a list of opening times an individual fact (rather than a very small collection of facts)?
It's a database if it took "substantial investment" to obtain and compile, so I'm pretty confident that doesn't cover the opening hours of a shop, compiled by the shop itself.
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