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Telemetry isn't facts. Taking a picture of something isn't a fact.
by ucaetano 8y ago
Telemetry isn't facts. Taking a picture of something isn't a fact.
- shmerl 8y agoTelemetry is simply gathering of factual information. And it's not produced by a human. There is no copyright for something produced by machines or animals, so far. You can consider copyrightability of something produced by intelligent machine (human like), but that's a whole topic in itself and not even the case here.
- robin_reala 8y agoThe “animals can’t hold copyright in the US” principle was reaffirmed recently in the monkey selfie case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
- NeutronStar 8y agoSo no photo is ever copyrightable?
- ucaetano 8y agoYou can own copyright on a dataset of facts. A map is a dataset of facts. The MLB stats are a dataset of facts. Copyright doesn't mean that you can't create a work that is similar based on the same facts, it just means that to do so you can't copy the original work. You can create a new map of the streets, but you can't just do so by copying an existing map (with the exception of certain licenses and so on).
- sorokod 8y agoWhat and odd thing to say: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fact https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fact