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Old 01-26-2004, 04:19 AM   #1
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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?

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Old 01-26-2004, 04:24 AM   #2
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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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Old 01-26-2004, 04:28 AM   #3
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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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Old 01-26-2004, 05:55 AM   #4
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no you can't
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Old 01-26-2004, 06:16 AM   #5
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Dave should know ALL about copyrights and etc...lmao

Don't ya big boy..lol
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