Why would it be public domain?
Honest question, I'm not understanding how telemetry data is different than airborne laser scanner data, Streetview, map data, satellite pictures, etc.
Or even server logs generated by an iPhone for Apple, Tesla's car data logs, etc.
Not sure if that's the case but they do not have element of creativity. They just copy real world so why would they deserve any monopoly?
Shouldn't you?
PS: Not including the weird exceptions in the EU of monuments and such.
Somehow I have thought that monopolies are so generally accepted as harmful, that it would be the proponents of monopolies that have the burden of proof. Not the ones who oppose monopolies.
So instead of just assuming that copyrights are good for society, can you provide some evidence?
Other than that, just thing of photographers who spend their life working on photography. Copyright allows them to charge for their work, or for a software developer to charge for their work.
Removing copyright entirely means you can only monetize your work based on the marginal cost, the result is zero monetization for any type of work that has near-zero marginal cost, such as a book, movies, photography, etc.
Sure, you can argue that we should move to the fairyland dream scenario where everyone is beautifully funded by fans and so on. We've been there, it was how art in the Middle Ages worked.
Anyway, that is a separate discussion:
1) Given that copyright exists, should X be copyrightable?
2) Should copyright exist?
But copyright is likely moot anyway, as the cars will be imprisoned [0] with strong digital restrictions to siphon the data to manufacturers while preventing access by people.
[0] The complement of "jailbreak", right?
Think of it as Google Analytics. If you run a site and use Google Analytics on it, do you own the copyright of the data generated by it?
You can consider copyrightability of something produced by intelligent machine (human like), but that's a whole topic in itself and not even the case here.
A map is a dataset of facts. The MLB stats are a dataset of facts.
Copyright doesn't mean that you can't create a work that is similar based on the same facts, it just means that to do so you can't copy the original work.
You can create a new map of the streets, but you can't just do so by copying an existing map (with the exception of certain licenses and so on).
Copyright is supposed to protect creative works. There is such a thing as a threshold of originality. There are database rights, but that is separate from copyright.