I really love this question. I think most of use will answer seeing "through the glass darkly" as it were. I can't answer (1) as my opinion is just noise until

I really love this question. I think most of use will answer seeing "through the glass darkly" as it were. I can't answer (1) as my opinion is just noise until it works through the legal system. I suspect they will be. For (2), I think they should. You can't copyright the algorithm (recipe) but you can copyright the output (expression) of the recipe. On that note, this allows for open sourcing of models as well.