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This is why I strongly prefer the Dutch term 'auteursrecht' (author's rights) as opposed to copyright. Copyright has this annoying incorrect connotation that it

This is why I strongly prefer the Dutch term 'auteursrecht' (author's rights) as opposed to copyright. Copyright has this annoying incorrect connotation that it has anything to do with copying when it's really publishing that it should be limiting. Downloading publicly available data should (by definition of public) not be a violation of someone's rights. However it's easy to see why it wouldn't be desirable for someone to republish creative works as their own, so it's reasonable to give the author control over how their work should be published. And in the case of price data or similar you would be hard pressed to deem anyone the 'author' of it, hence it would be weird to enforce the author's rights.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
>Copyright has this annoying incorrect connotation that it has anything to do with copying when it's really publishing that it should be limiting. // Copyright does make _copying_ tortuous. Broad personal use exceptions in USA, for example, make this appear not to be true, but it is the act of copying - even without publication - that is protected in general. Ripping a CD in UK, for example is copyright infringement without a general personal use exception (there are exceptions, under Fair Dealing, but whatever you're doing almost certainly doesn't fall into them). See eg UK CDPA1988, Chapter II, section 16(1)(a); or USC17, Chapter 1, 106(1).