Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Ohio

Re: Are stock & option quotes public information?

Each edition of the publication (and here, "publication" includes internet sites as well as traditional publications like newspapers) from which historical information was collected is protected by copyright in the US. While the numbers are what they are and the graphs produced by those numbers are what they are (any copyright protection on mere data would be very, very, very thin, if it exists at all), any commentary, analysis, or other evaluation or notations about the data that may have been published with that data are very much protected by copyright. Taking any information beyond just the numbers could land the taker into the wrong end of a remarkably expensive copyright infringement suit.

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