Comment by Zuiii
9 months ago
A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".
9 months ago
A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".
Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...
So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?
Not on an individual basis. If you collected a large number of them and someone copied them from you, then you could have a database right claim, which is sort of similar to copyright, but much less powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
Yeah, in the EU it does have Palantir's protection. /s