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Re:The European AllSky7 fireball network by littlestymaar on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:36PM (#47547931)
This is really cool.

The disclaimer on the website is weird though:

> Note that all images and video presented here are copyright protected and may not be copied or shared for commercial purposes

How can those be copyright protected at all given they have been taken automatically from surveillance camera without creative input from anyone?

To my (non lawyer) understanding, this would fall in the same category as CCTV footages which aren't considered worthy of copyright protection.

Any thoughts?

Re:The European AllSky7 fireball network by kilianinbox on Friday March 27, 2026 @08:13PM (#47550094)
technically the human tilted the camera in a splendid angle ^^

similar to how its even possible to copyright music thats appreciated since it then belongs to music that technically is just a back-propagation of neural nets for biological humans; thus not innovation but discovery or similar; even less more remarkable: music in a genre? A a genre literally means a copy of the earlier generation that someone or something made; thus shall not be copyrighted.

i may be wrong.