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Legal question: Can Evals, Rollouts be copyrighted?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Saturday, 10 October 2009, at 11:16 p.m.

In Response To: Legal question: Can Evals, Rollouts be copyrighted? (Tom Keith)

Tom Keith wrote:

I don't think something has to be "creative" to be copyrightable. You can copyright a book of tables, for example, or a book of random numbers.

Absolutely correct.

In the end, what's "legal" is, by definition, what the courts decide. MCG's arguments have some merit, but depending on the circumstances, the courts could rule the other way. As I think Steve Mellen said, if you're trying to predict what the courts will do, logic is not necessarily a reliable guide.

Something that I don't think anyone has mentioned is that the situation might be different with GNU versus other bots, because of the GNU copyleft agreement. I somehow doubt that the copyleft could be argued to extend to rollouts performed using gnubg, but it's something to consider.

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