Can you copyright lists of public data?

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  • goBigtime
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2002
    • 7761
    #1

    Can you copyright lists of public data?

    Example:

    If a company made a list of closing stock prices for the past year & put a copyright on the database... would that copyright be valid?
    Last edited by goBigtime; 01-26-2004, 02:22 AM.
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    • VideoVoyeur
      So Fucking Banned
      • Jun 2003
      • 2181
      #2
      No, you cannot copyright things that are public if the person who first made the data public owns the rights.

      IE: NASDAQ releases stock quotes, they in sense have made them, and would own the interest in it ,you cannot compile them and copyright it.

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        • goBigtime
          Confirmed User
          • Nov 2002
          • 7761
          #3
          Great


          I just read something similar somewhere else... actually it talked about how to possibly protect such data (via EULA's with NDA and trade secret protection).

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            • Theo
              HAL 9000
              • May 2001
              • 34515
              #4
              no you can't

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                • AM Jeff
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 1320
                  #5
                  Dave should know ALL about copyrights and etc...lmao

                  Don't ya big boy..lol

                  Feel the Rage Motherfucker. It's Coming Soon to a Browser near you.

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