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As an example, let's take Call of Duty Ghost. I want to take the data from the below screenshot and store it in a database as it is. (Rank, Level, Player Name, etc.)
Is it legal to extract data from a game screenshot and use it as desired? Is this related to copyright or trademark?
These are just facts, reported by the program, and not someone's creative product, so it is not protected by copyright. The data might contain a word that coincides with a trademark, but that probably doesn't matter. Registering a name as a trademark doesn't mean that you have absolute ownership of that word, it means you have control over its use in the particular sphere, for example Apple owns that trademark for computers, but not saw blades.
