Newspaper Articles Not Copyrightable In Slovakia 86

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:05AM 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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by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @06:54AM (#38649104)

You seem confused. The copyright of facts and the copyright of newspaper articles are two distinct things.

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