From hadley at rice.edu  Tue Apr  3 23:00:58 2012
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:00:58 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R datasets ownership(copyright) and license
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> 2. we considered all datasets factual data thus not copyrightable (in
> ? USA? around the globe?)

This is definitely true in the US, but not true globally.  I have no
idea under which jurisdiction a lawsuit would apply.

Hadley

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[Rd] R datasets ownership(copyright) and license
Hadley Wickham