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?

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.

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).

no you can't :)

Dave should know ALL about copyrights and etc...lmao

Don't ya big boy..lol