Re:EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data fr...
by ucaetano on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:49PM
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You can own copyright on a dataset of facts.
A map is a dataset of facts. The MLB stats are a dataset of facts.
Copyright doesn't mean that you can't create a work that is similar based on the same facts, it just means that to do so you can't copy the original work.
You can create a new map of the streets, but you can't just do so by copying an existing map (with the exception of certain licenses and so on).
Re:EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data fr...
by robin_reala on Friday October 12, 2018 @05:51AM
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The “animals can’t hold copyright in the US” principle was reaffirmed recently in the monkey selfie case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
You can consider copyrightability of something produced by intelligent machine (human like), but that's a whole topic in itself and not even the case here.