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Newspaper Articles Not Copyrightable In Slovakia

Posted by Unknown on from the us-to-issue-trade-sanctions dept.

Yenya writes "In Slovakia, newspaper articles can be freely aggregated and archived, and are not worth copyright protection. The district court in Bratislava, Slovakia, stated in the case between news publishing house Ecopress and a news monitoring company Storin, that while the news articles manifests traces of creativity, it is not enough to be considered worth protecting the authors rights (English translation)."

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  1. I live in Slovakia by SlovakWakko · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The copyright lobby is still trying to locate us on the map. Once they find us, our politicians will last maybe 3 minutes...

  2. Re:In Slovakia... by airfoobar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No no no, in America copyright owns you. In Slovakia, copyright knows its place.

  3. We could cut the copyright on newspaper articles by rollingcalf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... down to 5 or 10 days after publication, and it wouldn't kill the incentives of journalists to research and write the articles, or of newspapers to publish them. Nearly all of their monetary value is realized in the first 48 hours after publication.

    Cutting the copyright short would also make it easier for newspapers to make their archives of old articles available. In America some newspapers get cockblocked by journalists suing to collect royalties again on years-old articles just because the article is republished in a different medium.

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