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Legal question: Can Evals, Rollouts be copyrighted?
Posted By: Rich Munitz In Response To: Legal question: Can Evals, Rollouts be copyrighted? (Matt Cohn-Geier)
Date: Saturday, 10 October 2009, at 3:15 p.m.
"If anyone can reproduce it by a fixed algorithm given enough time it isn't a creative work. "
Such as roll out all openings to N-JSD of statistical significance.
While choice of bot and seed and other rollout settings and "N" and the fact that a human such as Stick (I think human is still a correct categorization) might not reliably apply such algorithmic rules to their efforts will prevent an algorithm from producing identical results, I have to imagine that results from such a method would be substantially similar.
In my non-expert opinion, the information becomes referenceable - meaning that someone should be able to lift the data and publish it, but should site its source. It is not much different from publishing an almanac listing sunrise and sunset times where those times were simply lifted from some web site. The computations are repeatable and you might not get identical values (e.g. the source may list times for Omaha, Nebraska but the exact latitude/longitude used for the original computations may not be known), but close enough to simply give the available values and say where you got them.
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