> However, private-eye type intelligence has no legal protection as property as far as I know. Why do you assume that it isn't "born copyrighted" like almost e

> However, private-eye type intelligence has no legal protection as property as far as I know. Why do you assume that it isn't "born copyrighted" like almost everything else? (The big exception is pure data, such as the phone book.) The expression of observations is clearly copyrightable. And then there's trade secret protection. The fact that they got hacked doesn't necessary void that.