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keepthepace t1_je4s97b wrote

Honestly at this point I am not sure weights can be copyrighted: they have no human "author". It is a total gray zone. Tribunals will rule knia few years that the habits taken now are the jurisprudence

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OldManSaluki t1_je5cmjw wrote

I'm leaning in this direction myself.

IANAL, but I think about the Feist Publications ruling which dealt with raw listings of facts (white pages names, addresses, phone numbers organized in the most functional format - alphabetic.) SCOTUS ruled that the raw data was not copyrightable even though it took a lot of effort to collect and compile it. It seems to be that the raw data here are the weights which would make them not copyrightable. The structural design of the model might be, and more than likely the compiled model with weights would be copyrightable.

I suspect this will work its way through the courts just in time to be rendered moot.

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