At 2025-05-09T12:57:41+0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> A virus detection database is another prominent example where it is
> absolutely clear there is no way to get consent from the copyright
> holders of the original training data (the authors of millions of
> viruses).
On the bright side, works of the United States government are explicitly
ineligible for copyright protection.[1] So the NSA can't object on this
basis.[2][3] I wonder if the SVR & FSB (Russia), MOIS & IRGC (Iran),
and MSS (PRC) are similarly constrained.
Regards,
Branden
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105
[2] They can of course get their buddies in DHS to deport you to El
Salvador, where CECOT Prison awaits. Funny how those elements of
the "Deep State" committed to ****ing people up go unmolested by
budget cuts, reductions-in-force, and spastic reorganizational
gestures helpfully market as "efficiency gains" achieved by
brilliant billionaire minds.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/lost-in-the-death-realm-of-el-salvador-s-prisons
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cuts-cost-135-billion-analysis-elon-musk-department-of-government-efficiency/
[3] However, as 17 USC 105(a) notes, "...the United States Government
is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred
to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
"...or otherwise" can include assets seized through eminent domain
or civil asset forfeiture procedures, prospects to keep in mind
under any U.S. administration, but particularly one so openly
committed to fraud and self-enrichment by its officeholders.
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