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In EU the almost only thing that stop you from building up other software is copyright. Legal restrictions (as Spotify terms) to stop you is null and void, as t
by punnerud 6y ago
In EU the almost only thing that stop you from building up other software is copyright. Legal restrictions (as Spotify terms) to stop you is null and void, as the Database directive states:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Reevaluation of the directive (2018):
http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8466-2018-INIT/en/pdf http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8466-2018-IN...
To count as copyright there have to be a substantial manual effort into production of the data. Also byproduct of your ordinary business is not copyright (called “sui generis”).
On page 15 there is also about the “horse race” case taken to the court, that state the same.