[hedora]

Also, I think the bitlaw interpretation is incorrect. “Sweat of the brow” doesn’t magically produce copyright protection, and they don’t mention that.

Taking their example, if you had a collections from quotes from presidents, and I got a bunch of similar collections, then made my own ultimate definitive collection based partially on your list, then there’s very little chance I’d be liable for violating your copyright. If I copied the list and typesetting verbatim, you’d have a better case.

Also, modern rulings about LLM training (the topic of this thread) certainly mean copyrights on compilations of facts don’t survive training + inference cycles.

[fsckboy]

>“Sweat of the brow” doesn’t magically produce copyright protection

...then you go on to make the "sweat of the brow" argument

"typesetting" doesn't enter into it, "database" is meant to include the computerized version