[MUD-Dev] BIZ: Who owns my sword?

[Tamzen Cannoy]

At 5:22 PM +0000 9/11/03, Matt Mihaly wrote,

> Well, as far as I am aware (and I am not a lawyer), the law would
> not recognize a collection of database entries as having any legal
> right whatsoever. Without legal right there is no legal
> ownership. Companies can own things. Individuals can own
> things. I'm pretty sure an avatar or the copy of Word sitting on
> my harddrive cannot, at least in the eyes of the law.

The EU is proposing just such copyrights for databases and the US is
also considering it.

  http://www.mbc.com/db30/cgi-bin/pubs/TPA-European_Commission.pdf

  http://www.avnonline.com/issues/200309/newsarchive/news_090503_10.shtml

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Tamzen

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