New Creative Commons License Addresses Database Rights

The Atlantic reports on the release of the new version of the Creative Commons copyright license yesterday. The new license addresses how the Creative Commons license interacts with database rights. In the European Union and other jurisdictions, compilers of databases have rights over who copies and uses their databases for 15 years, but those database rights aren't protected by copyright in the United States, The Atlantic also reports. "That’s because facts can’t be copyrighted in the U.S., and databases—especially non-creative ones—are just collections of facts," according to The Atlantic.