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Data in and of itself cannot be copyrighted under U.S. copyright law: "creative arrangement" of it can be, but given that the data in question was generated fro
by murderfs 6y ago
Data in and of itself cannot be copyrighted under U.S. copyright law: "creative arrangement" of it can be, but given that the data in question was generated from XML file, I don't think you could make a claim that the arrangement was copied.
- whimsicalism 6y ago? I don't follow - it seems pretty clear that this falls under the GPL from my reading of what is copyrightable, ie. they can't copy your compilation of the data.
- rst 6y agoYour reading of what is copyrightable may not be entirely in accord with the US Supreme Court's, which has ruled that mere compilations of factual data (a telephone directory in the case that set the precedent) are not copyrightable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... If someone is trying to apply the GPL to stuff which isn't legally copyrightable in the first place (as may be the case here), then their copyright isn't enforceable, and neither is the GPL.