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IANAL, but many European countries have something called "Database copyright" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union#Database_ri
by gst 12y ago
IANAL, but many European countries have something called "Database copyright" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union#Database_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...). Basically if you build a database of something you can get a copyright for the database as a whole, even if there's no copyright for the individual items. I wouldn't surprise me if the German government claims that their list falls under these database copyright laws. But even if that's the case there would still be the question how copyright treaties affect such a copyright and if this copyright is enforcable in the United States.
- DanHulton 12y agoHm. Would that still apply given that - if I read this right - the list of hashes are distributed publicly?
- gst 12y agoWhat is the license under which those hashes are distributed? Just because something is distributed publicly doesn't mean it can be legally redistributed.
- grecy 12y agoThen don't redistribute it, just distribute the step-by-step directions required to reverse it [1] (as is done on a site linked by the original article) [1] - of course, directions could be just source that does it for you, a la DeCSS