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

["W. David Samuelsen" <dsam@wasatch.com>]

It was on this list the several montsh running up to the WIPO meeting in
Geneva. That was in 1997.

W. David Samuelsen

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> 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.