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Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill

Posted by michael on from the here-comes-another-one dept.

thisissilly writes "Ready for another set of restrictions to so-called 'intellectual property'? The House Judiciary committee approved a bill to extend copyright-like protection to databases, despite opposition by AT&T, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google, among others. Currently mere compilations of facts, such as phone books, are not copyrightable. This would change that. Coverage from Cnet, Internetnews. No word on a Senate version. Let's stop this one before it grows."

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  1. Re:Dear Linux professionals by ivanmarsh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope this is a joke.

    I'd hate to think the state of our military's infrastructure is in the hands of someone so stupid he thinks he's going to get an answer to this question after he mis-posted it to a discussion that has nothing to do with linux or is too fucking dumb to uninstall an RPM.

    rpm -e python dumbass!

    (You should not include the "dumbass!" portion of the above line when you try to uninstall.)