How do you reconcile the alternate opinion that a custom map is the result of a paid service?
For example, if I have paid for a custom map for my bike, then it's mine. the tuner doesn't have a copyright over it as I paid for the effort and I took the risk that it was going to improve the bike. There is no try before you buy. You hire the expertise and the equipment and pay by the hour on a best-effort basis, meaning I pay for his best efforts, but the result of those efforts is mine.
I think it is different from the music, movie situation. If you hire the studio, equipment, engineer and writer, then you paid for the inputs, the recording that results is yours to do with as you please. But we don't do that, it costs a lot of money, so we let the record company and performers hire the studio etc and they take that commercial risk and therefore retain teh copyright. They charge us a fraction of the cost in the price of the CD and we can try before we buy. (listen to it on the radio, video clips etc)
Now, my custom map might work fine for my bike, with my mods, in my environment. If I give my map to someone else with the very same setup, my map will still need altering for them due to differences within each machine and each environment (temp, humidity etc)
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