Re: Carl Hartmann letter to Sen Hatch Regarding Database legislation and ownership of court opinions

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

I hope that it is not too late to keep fighting against applying
monopolies to data bases that don't come from government information.

I seem to recall seeing a discussion, a few years ago, where people
sent in all the consequences they could think of that the database
monopoly law would have.  For example, one consequence was that it
would be that reporting sports scores would require permission of the
sports league, because the scores are calculated in a computer which
stores them in a data base.

I don't remember where that discussion happened.  Was it on this list?
And wherever it was, can anyone find those messages?  I think that a
concise list of all these consequences would be very useful for
publicly attacking the database monopoly bill.