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So wait. If I forget my office dooropen to my office, are you entitled to enter, make copies of documents and leave?

• srslack 3y ago
  This is akin to going to Google, or more accurately Open Street Map since we want to keep the metaphor, and threatening them with legal action for creating a map with the address of your house on it and noting that there's a priceless mural which you originally advertised and made publicly available elsewhere. Since people can take the map, find your address on it, and take pictures of the priceless mural, which they can then use to train a monkey to incorporate the style of the mural into other murals that the monkey creates, thus violating your copyright. And the murals that the monkey produces are not copyrightable. But also, yes, in that instance, if it's public and the door's open. Your analogy isn't a good one though. I like mine better, to illustrate the hoops the artist had to jump through.
• prepend 3y ago
  Yes, actually. If your door is open the public and your documents are laying on your desk, then I can certainly walk in and take pictures of your documents with my phone. Of course there are restrictions like if your office is already in a private building, probably not. But if it’s facing a public street and I just walk in, how would I know you didn’t leave it open all the time? If you had some “no tresspassing” “private property” signs up and the door was open, then your scenario is less likely to work. Or if your documents are locked up in a file cabinet, then I can’t break into it.