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Exactly. This should definitely be grounds for allowing copying google maps data as long as you render it in your own style. The usual trick here is trap data w
by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Exactly. This should definitely be grounds for allowing copying google maps data as long as you render it in your own style. The usual trick here is trap data where map makers insert fake data to catch copies but thats exactly what happened here with the ' in the lyrics.
- young_unixer 6y agoJust add some small, inconsequential error to all positional data.
- RichieAHB 6y agoDoes this mean Genius can add a few non-breaking spaces to the lyrics, with a couple of odd unicode characters that look like periods and commas. I guess at some point it’d end up looking like a ReCaptcha and there’s enough of those already ...
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoThats exactly what they did with commas. Didn't help them.
- londons_explore 6y agoIf the actual data isn't copyrightable, yet the 'fake/trap data' is, then presumably when one copies the map, a court will decide that the magnitude of the copying is very small - only a single apostrophe was copied - and therefore the damages negligible. If fake data is hidden amongst real data, wouldn't there also be the argument that the copier was unaware that they were copying a creative work rather than pure facts?
- braythwayt 6y agoFred Saberhagen made this a plot point in one of his Berserker stories. Going by my highly suspect memory... A damaged Berserker captures an atlas showing an occupied system nearby, and heads there with its last reserves of power to destroy the system. The human who didn't stop the Berserker is charged with a crime against sentience, but is acquitted when he reveals the secret: The occupied system was a fake, in the tradition of cartographers going back to the Middle Ages on Sol.