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The header likely does not contain enough creative content to even be covered by copyright.
by Polylactic_acid 7y ago
The header likely does not contain enough creative content to even be covered by copyright.
- serf 7y agoyeah, but it gives the opportunity for the parent company of the source material to redistribute something without meaning to. header-bourne SNES malware? Probably not, but one can dream.
- metaphor 7y agoSeriously[1]? This supposed lack of "creative content" has become the de facto standard in the domain. [1] https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoThats 16 bytes of data, not nearly enough to be covered by copyright. Its not about how important it is. Like how a single line slogan isn't copyrightable even if its unique and clever, they can be covered by trademarks however. I doubt a 16 byte header could be covered by trademarks either.
- wyldfire 7y ago> Thats 16 bytes of data, not nearly enough to be covered by copyright Gee. Maybe they should've put it in the form of a haiku? :)
- fox8091 7y ago"16 bytes of data" is also the size of an AES-256 key, which is apparently able to be copyrighted.
- zerocrates 7y agoWhat's your source on that? Doesn't seem likely to me.
- dehrmann 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... I wish people would point that out more often when there's discussion around backdooring systems to allow for government surveillance. With how quickly keys got out for HDDVD and Blu-ray, there's no reason to thing something similar wouldn't happen with a government backdoor, and that's if it's not for sale on the dark web before it goes public.
- brazzy 7y ago> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... Actually refutes your claim that an AES key can itself be covered by copyright. The given reason to attempt to have it removed was not that copying the key itself violates copyright, but that it was used to circumvent copyright-protection mechanisms.
- segfaultbuserr 7y agoThis is nonsense. An encryption key can never be copyrighted, it's only illegal to redistribute it because it's a circumvention device under the DMCA, and possibly illegal under the CFAA, not because it's copyrighted.