Copyright Ruling On Publishing Calculated Results: Common Sense Breaks Out 54
bfwebster writes "During the past few years, I served as an IT expert witness in BanxCorp v. Costco et al., in which BanxCorp sued Costco and Capital One for citing (with credit) its web-published national averages for CD and money market rates in their advertising. Judge Kenneth M. Karas issued his summary judgment opinion last fall, finding that BanxCorp's published averages are 'uncopyrightable facts' due to the simple calculation involved and the lack of ongoing human judgment in what banks were involved. Here is my summary of his findings, along with a link to the actual ruling."
Bad news for Wolfram alpha (Score:4, Interesting)
Wolfram alpha claims most notably claims copyright for all it's results, even when it is a simple mathematical calculation, or simple english to metric conversion.
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Map Data is open, the tiles are just math. (Score:2, Interesting)
I should be able to rip all of the map tiles I want, it's just math on public data.