Re:Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Go...
by nl on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:08AM
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Compilations of facts are copyrightable in the US, but they can't be just raw collections - there has to be a choice made what to include.
> The Act also provides copyright protection to compilations, but only to the extent that there has been a contribution of originality in assembling that compilation.
Map copyright is based on the idea there are decisions made around what to include and how to display it.
You can't photocopy a map and claim copyright. However, a human can trace the same map and claim copyright.
> The Act also provides copyright protection to compilations, but only to the extent that there has been a contribution of originality in assembling that compilation.
Map copyright is based on the idea there are decisions made around what to include and how to display it.
You can't photocopy a map and claim copyright. However, a human can trace the same map and claim copyright.
See City of New York v. GeoData Plus, and the discussion in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/6/6f/Protection_of_C...