{"id":97,"date":"2006-03-03T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmediatrends.fdim.fujacks.pil.dk\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:09:10","slug":"this-is-not-a-database-says-court-about-online-real-estate-database-in-deep-linking-case-of-ofir-vs-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/this-is-not-a-database-says-court-about-online-real-estate-database-in-deep-linking-case-of-ofir-vs-home\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not a database! Says court about online real estate-database in deep-linking case of OFiR vs. HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update to my post \u201cDanish Court approves of deep-linking<\/a>\u201d. Reads through the verdict once more and finds out the www.home.dk realestate-database is found not to be a database at all. Therefore http:\/\/www.home.dk\/<\/a> is not subject to the European Union Database-directive \u2013 and therefore deep-links to the \u201cdatabase\u201d is OK.\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Sure it\u2019s a database\u2026
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>Clearly from a technological and user-centric point of view the Home database is a database. After all Real Estate broker HOME sells nearly 25 % of all houses in Denmark. And the database \u2013 or website, as it is \u2013 allows you to search through all of these, complete with Google earth-like satellite camera-tours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026No it\u2019s not!
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>But nevertheless it\u2019s not a database from a juridical point of view. At least not in the sense of the beforementioned directive. The database directive protects the database as such \u2013 not the content in it. (The content is protected through copyright-laws).\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The content is to good
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>Actually the quality of the content \u2013 information about houses for sale – seems to disqualify the database from being a true database: the content is to good! To be a database, the directive requires that the data to be put in the database should be already there before the database-creator populates his database. If he himself enriches the data, the database turns from being af mere container of data to a production system of the database-company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably goes for news-sites as well
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>This seems to imply that among others also the databases of news-sites are not databases in the directive-sense, and therefore might not be protected from deep-links.\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Potential competition also important
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>The OFiR vs. HOME verdict also consider other aspects, however. It seems to be important to the Court, that portal OFiR (based on revenues from bannerads) does not compete with real estate site HOME, funded by fees from houses actually sold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read for yourself<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nGo read the verdict for yourself here (its in danish, the interesting part goes from page 125 and onwards): http:\/\/www.domstol.dk\/media\/-300011\/files\/v010899.pdf<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Update to my post \u201cDanish Court approves of deep-linking\u201d. Reads through the verdict once more and finds out the www.home.dk realestate-database is found not to be a database at all. Therefore http:\/\/www.home.dk\/ is not subject to the European Union Database-directive \u2013 and therefore deep-links to the \u201cdatabase\u201d is OK.\u00a0 Sure it\u2019s a database\u2026 Clearly from… L\u00e6s mere »This is not a database! Says court about online real estate-database in deep-linking case of OFiR vs. HOME<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}