In particular, what if I copyright all facts concerning myself and refuse to grant any company a license? Surely no entity could have a better claim to their "authorship". Say hello to free unlisted telephone numbers.
You'll have a heck of a time convincing a judge of that.
Consider you've had at least one credit card for the last 25 years and you've spent, on average, $1000 a year on it. That's $25,000. Assume all credit cards are now paid off.
Consider, if you will, all the checks you've written. If you've written $10,000 a year worth of checks for 25 years, that's $250K.
Unless you have reciepts for all of these transactions, especially the cash ones, organized in a logical system of some sort, you have no database
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Quick question: does it have to be a corporation owning the database, or can it be a private individual?
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(1) the database was generated, gathered, or maintained through a substantial expenditure of financial resources or time;
...then you might have a case. This is meant to protect big business.
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You'll have a heck of a time convincing a judge of that.
Consider you've had at least one credit card for the last 25 years and you've spent, on average, $1000 a year on it. That's $25,000. Assume all credit cards are now paid off.
Consider, if you will, all the checks you've written. If you've written $10,000 a year worth of checks for 25 years, that's $250K.
Unless you have reciepts for all of these transactions, especially the cash ones, organized in a logical system of some sort, you have no database