Is company information subject to copyright?

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Alexander Baumgertner2010-01-02 01:22:14

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Alexander Baumgertner, 2010-01-02 01:22:14

Friends, tell me: I want to make a catalog of companies in one city, I collect information from different sites. The layout and design is entirely mine. Can source sites make claims against me if it is known that information about the company was taken from them (it's trite, they will find their typo on my site)?

Legally speaking, is the information in the catalog subject to copyright? Judging by
http://copyright.ru/
, the author's property is only the ways of arranging and formatting such information.

Can't the address and description of the company's activities be a closed copyright? Or maybe? Explain, who knows, please.

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kefiijrw, 2010-01-02
@alexbaum

I'm not a lawyer at all, but I remember from a law course that an informational fact is not an object of copyright. article 1259 of the Civil Code, clause 6.4: “messages about events and facts that are exclusively informational in nature are not objects of copyright.”
and your database will already be subject to copyright.
on the other hand, perhaps there in the names of companies or descriptions there will be all these words marked ® and (TM), I don’t know how to dance around this.
in general, you can not do without a lawyer

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marcus, 2010-01-02
@marcus

The object of copyright here, first of all, is the database under Art. 1296-1297.

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amc, 2011-01-03
@amc

No one can bring claims for company names, but for illegal (without permission) use of the database - completely. Even if the info is on their website in the public domain. And for the purpose of making a profit (banners / adsense / direct are quite rolled for commercial use) ...

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bubuq, 2011-01-03
@bubuq

If this were not the case, then any search engine could be sued, since it does just that: it takes someone else's information and places it on its website.

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clamaw, 2010-01-02
@clamaw

What's wrong with asking permission? Or will it take too long?

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onthefly, 2011-01-03
@onthefly

If the copyright holder can convincingly prove that you have reproduced any significant amount of information from their database, then there are grounds for holding you liable in civil proceedings.

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Kindman, 2011-08-30
@Kindman

If "business-info" is something like a book like Amazon.com's Secret to Success , then of course it's copyrighted.

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Alexander Baumgertner, 2012-02-10
@alexbaum

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