"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:04:41 GMT, "Brian Sharrock"
wrote:

AIUI; there is _not_ a 'BT directory anymore.
Ofcom are the publishers of a book that (is supposed to) contains all the
phone numbers that are not ex-directory. This book is called 'The Phone
Book' and is distributed to each subscriber once per year. This task is
'huge' requiring databases, printing, distribution capability, etc, etc.;
so
OFcom puts the job out to tender . The Ofcom contract -to produce the
'Phone
Book' has been won by a telco trading under the name _BT_ . it may look
like
a BT directory, it may feel like a BT directory ... but it's no longer the
BT directory ... it's 'The Phone Book".

Were that so, it's unlikely that BT would be allowed to have their
corporate logo on the front, or be "copyright British
Telecommunications"...

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Frank Erskine

Ah! You've read the entire contract have you, Frank?
The copyright declaration prevent outfits such as Tnompson photo-copying the
pages and.or OCR the data.

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Brian