Copyrighting Databases

[Anas R.]

Hi,

I've been thinking recently what could possibly make databases deserve 
copyright, in replay to 
the discussion about a GNU license for databases/dictionaries couple of moths 
ago here in this mailing list,
(Here's a brief summary of it: 
http://www.linuxfuture.org/archives/2007/02/entry_32.html)


So far, I concluded that since:
        - Natural languages doesn't have a structured architecture (A bilingual 
dictionary as a database)
    - Databases sometimes need very sensitive design efforts

We can copyright these 'creative' activities: 

    * UML/ERD Design (Normalizing)
    * Structuring something unstructured: Word definitions are not “Facts”,
       it seems like the only example for such an activity is 'Dictionaries'
           which seems in return; a good enough reason for copyrighting 
databases.

Best regards

 - Anas R.