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If yours was an original work, how would you know it's the same? It's absurdly unlikely that you could write "It" but I'm sure people co-invent blocks of text e

If yours was an original work, how would you know it's the same? It's absurdly unlikely that you could write "It" but I'm sure people co-invent blocks of text every day. I wonder what the longest block of text is on the internet that two people independently wrote.

kwhitefoot 8y ago
> I wonder what the longest block of text is on the internet that two people independently wrote. Not more than a couple of dozen words I would think. The number of possible combinations is astonishingly high. You might find this interesting: http://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/187848_0ec906d62df443b58a67061303299d63.html http://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/187848_0ec906d62...
apetresc 8y ago
The law doesn't operate on such a binary scale; "if we can't formulate an extremely precise distinction then no distinction can exist at all". If someone claimed to write an original work that was exactly the same as It, a 1200-page novel, nobody would accept that it was independently written, even if we can't exactly pin down the word count at which we draw that line.
pavel_lishin 8y ago
My point is that if someone recreates an exact replica of the NCC-1701-D bridge, or another creative work that someone else made, it's ludicrous to suggest that the first amendment somehow magically protects you from doing whatever you want with it.
- grizzles 8y ago
  What exactly do you consider an exact replica? A screenshot from the TV series? It's a fictional object. It's not like it's the bloody Concorde and they photocopied the plans from BAC/Aérospatiale and posted them on the internet.
  - pavel_lishin 8y ago
    That's a fair point; other commenters pointed out that parts of the ship as depicted are identical to the parts seen on TV (e.g., the screens with the LCARS systems on them.) That's pretty damning.

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If yours was an original work, how would you know it's the same? It's absurdly unlikely that you could write "It" but I'm sure people co-invent blocks of text e

by grizzles 8y ago

kwhitefoot 8y ago
> I wonder what the longest block of text is on the internet that two people independently wrote. Not more than a couple of dozen words I would think. The number of possible combinations is astonishingly high. You might find this interesting: http://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/187848_0ec906d62df443b58a67061303299d63.html http://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/187848_0ec906d62...
apetresc 8y ago
The law doesn't operate on such a binary scale; "if we can't formulate an extremely precise distinction then no distinction can exist at all". If someone claimed to write an original work that was exactly the same as It, a 1200-page novel, nobody would accept that it was independently written, even if we can't exactly pin down the word count at which we draw that line.
pavel_lishin 8y ago
My point is that if someone recreates an exact replica of the NCC-1701-D bridge, or another creative work that someone else made, it's ludicrous to suggest that the first amendment somehow magically protects you from doing whatever you want with it.
- grizzles 8y ago
  What exactly do you consider an exact replica? A screenshot from the TV series? It's a fictional object. It's not like it's the bloody Concorde and they photocopied the plans from BAC/Aérospatiale and posted them on the internet.
  - pavel_lishin 8y ago
    That's a fair point; other commenters pointed out that parts of the ship as depicted are identical to the parts seen on TV (e.g., the screens with the LCARS systems on them.) That's pretty damning.