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Re:Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks by genai on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:59PM (#19621713)
Facts are not copyrightable

Link: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/works-not-covered-copyright#...

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Re:Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:02AM (#19621727)
Legal question aside, it's still can't decide if I feel like it's dickish.

Even that has a spectrum, from "What is harry potter book is first?" to "What is the first line of harry potter?" to "What is the text of the first harry potter book?"

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Re:Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks by notahacker on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:14AM (#19623844)
That does depend on jurisdiction and the definition of fact (for an extreme version the other way round: for a long time a UK copyright troll called Football DataCo claimed copyright of lists of UK football scores and demanded license fees - even where publishers actually obtained the scores from sending their own journalists to grounds. This was eventually overruled by the European Court of Justice, so it might be back again in future...)

A lot of Google's answers to questions veer towards being written opinions and original definitions anyway

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