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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...