Daniel Lakeland on Nostr: #[0] No, we don't! In the US you can't copyright datasets, and allowing people to ...
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No, we don't! In the US you can't copyright datasets, and allowing people to copyright a big table of temperature measurements or other scientific data would be way way worse. Imagine you need to pay royalties to some billionaire just to tell someone what the number of people in LA county in 2020 was because they own the essentially perpetual copyright on facts.
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No, we don't! In the US you can't copyright datasets, and allowing people to copyright a big table of temperature measurements or other scientific data would be way way worse. Imagine you need to pay royalties to some billionaire just to tell someone what the number of people in LA county in 2020 was because they own the essentially perpetual copyright on facts.
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