Can data be copyrighted?

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Sun Oct 30 15:49:38 UTC 2011


Hi,

I'm working on updating csound's copyright file, and I have a case I
did not handle before. Csound ships four datafiles which are the
result of a Discrete Fourier Transform of data (impulse responses)
measured in an anechoic chamber at MIT. The original data source
claims to hold copyright on the data, and attaches the following
license:

This data is Copyright 1994 by the MIT Media Laboratory. It is
provided free with no restrictions on use, provided the authors are
cited when the data is used in any research or commercial application.

Is this a valid copyright claim, or can we ignore it? If it is a valid
copyright claim, can we redistribute these datasets?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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