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by adolph 676 days ago
So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?
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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